Tonsilla

Tonsilla is a genus of East Asian funnel weavers first described by J. F. Wang & C. M. Yin in 1992.[2]

This article is about the genus of spiders. For brain anatomy, see Cerebellar tonsil.

Tonsilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Tonsilla
Wang & Yin, 1992[1]
Type species
T. truculenta Wang & Yin, 1992
Species

11, see text

Species

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

  • Tonsilla defossa Xu & Li, 2006 — China
  • Tonsilla distalis Zhang, Zhu & Wang, 2017 — China
  • Tonsilla eburniformis Wang & Yin, 1992 — China
  • Tonsilla lyrata (Wang, Yin, Peng & Xie, 1990) — China
  • Tonsilla makros Wang, 2003 — China
  • Tonsilla mopanensis Zhang, Zhu & Wang, 2017 — China
  • Tonsilla rostrum Jiang, Chen & Zhang, 2018 — China
  • Tonsilla tautispina (Wang, Yin, Peng & Xie, 1990) — China
  • Tonsilla truculenta Wang & Yin, 1992 — China
  • Tonsilla variegata (Wang, Yin, Peng & Xie, 1990) — China
  • Tonsilla yanlingensis (Zhang, Yin & Kim, 2000) — China

References
  1. "Gen. Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. Wang, J. F.; Yin, C. M. (1992). "A new genus and three new species of funnel-web spiders from south China (Araneae: Agelenidae)". Journal of Natural Science of Hunan Normal University. 15: 263–272.


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