Tafana

Tafana is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.[2]

Tafana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anyphaenidae
Genus: Tafana
Simon, 1903[1]
Type species
T. riveti
Simon, 1903
Species

4, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains four species:[1]

  • Tafana quelchi (Pocock, 1895) – Venezuela
  • Tafana riveti Simon, 1903 – Ecuador
  • Tafana silhavyi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
  • Tafana straminea (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia

References

  1. "Gen. Tafana Simon, 1903". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  2. Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions de quelques genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 1903: 123–124.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.