Beregama

Beregama is a genus of South Pacific huntsman spiders that was first described by D. B. Hirst in 1990.[2]

Beregama
Female Beregama aurea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Beregama
Hirst, 1990[1]
Type species
B. aurea
(L. Koch, 1875)
Species

4, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains four species, found in Papua New Guinea and Australia:[1]

  • Beregama aurea (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Beregama cordata (L. Koch, 1875) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Beregama goliath (Chrysanthus, 1965) – New Guinea
  • Beregama herculea (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Beregama Hirst, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Hirst, D. B. (1990). "A review of the genus Isopeda L. Koch (Heteropodidae: Araneae) in Australasia with descriptions of two new genera". Records of the South Australian Museum. 24 (1): 11–26.


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