Theuma (spider)

Theuma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Theuma Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
(Simon, 1889)
Species
26, see text

Theuma is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.^[2] Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.^[3]

Species[]

As of June 2019 it contains twenty-six species, found only in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa:^[1]

• Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Simon, 1893 – South Africa
• Purcell, 1907 – Botswana, South Africa
• Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
• Purcell, 1907 – Namibia, South Africa
• Strand, 1915 – Namibia
• Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
• Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
• Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
• Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa
• Purcell, 1908 – Namibia
• (Simon, 1889) (type) – Turkmenistan?
• Simon, 1893 – South Africa
• Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa

See also[]

• List of Gnaphosidae species

References[]