Thwaitesia
| Thwaitesia | |
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| T. affinis, female | |
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| Thwaitsia sp. from the NSW Central Coast | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Thwaitesia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. margaritifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881
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| Species | |
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23, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Thwaitesia is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1881.[3]
T. affinis females are 4.5 millimetres (0.18 in) long, and males are 2.7 millimetres (0.11 in) long. T. bracteata are about the same size. They are similar in appearance to members of both Spintharus and Episinus.
Species[]
As of June 2020 it contains twenty-three species, found in the tropics worldwide:[1]
- O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 – Panama to Paraguay
- Simon, 1895 – Algeria
- Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- (Tullgren, 1910) – Kenya, Tanzania
- (Lenz, 1891) – Madagascar
- Thwaitesia argentiopunctata (Rainbow, 1916) – Australia (Queensland)
- (Lenz, 1891) – Madagascar
- (Exline, 1950) – Trinidad, Colombia to Paraguay
- Patel & Patel, 1972 – India
- Zhu, 1998 – China
- (Vinson, 1863) – Réunion
- Thwaitesia margaritifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam
- (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
- Song, Zhang & Zhu, 2006 – China
- (Rainbow, 1912) – Australia (Queensland)
- Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar, Vietnam
- Butler, 1883 – Madagascar
- Simon, 1903 – Equatorial Guinea
- Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea
- (Keyserling, 1884) – Brazil
- Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
- Keyserling, 1884 – Panama to Venezuela
- Simon, 1903 – Sierra Leone
Formerly included:
- T. argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) (Transferred to Chrysso)
- T. conifera (Blackwall, 1862
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Thwaitesia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ^ Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 31.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1881). "On some new genera and species of Araneidea". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 49 (3): 765–775. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1881.tb01333.x.
Further reading[]
- Levi, H. W. (1963). "The American spider genera Spintharus and Thwaitesia" (PDF). Psyche, Cambridge. 70 (4): 223–234. doi:10.1155/1963/54690. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27.
- Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
- Keyserling, E. (1884). Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. pp. 1–222. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.
- Zhu, M. S.; Zhang, B. S. (2011). Spider Fauna of Henan: Arachnida: Araneae. Science Press, Beijing, xxii+ pp. p. 558.
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