Toschia

Toschia is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1949.[2]

Toschia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Toschia
Caporiacco, 1949[1]
Type species
T. picta
Caporiacco, 1949
Species

10, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains ten species, found in Central Africa, East Africa, China, and South Africa:[1]

  • Toschia aberdarensis Holm, 1962 – Kenya
  • Toschia casta Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania
  • Toschia celans Gao, Xing & Zhu, 1996 – China
  • Toschia concolor Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Toschia cypericola Jocqué, 1981 – Malawi
  • Toschia minuta Jocqué, 1984 – South Africa
  • Toschia picta Caporiacco, 1949 (type) – Congo, Kenya
  • Toschia spinosa Holm, 1968 – Congo
  • Toschia telekii Holm, 1962 – Kenya
  • Toschia virgo Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Toschia Caporiacco, 1949". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  2. Caporiacco, L. di (1949). "Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946". Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum. 13: 309–492.


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