Biology:Theuma (spider)

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Theuma
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
Genus: Theuma
Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
T. walteri
(Simon, 1889)
Species

25, see text

Theuma is a genus of African long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[2] It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018,[3] then returned in 2022.[1]

Species

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

  • Theuma ababensis Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Theuma andonea Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
  • Theuma aprica Simon, 1893 – South Africa
  • Theuma capensis Purcell, 1907 – Botswana, South Africa
  • Theuma cedri Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
  • Theuma elucubata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Theuma foveolata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Theuma funerea Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
  • Theuma fusca Purcell, 1907 – Namibia, South Africa
  • Theuma longipes Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
  • Theuma maculata Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
  • Theuma microphthalma Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
  • Theuma mutica Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
  • Theuma ovambica Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
  • Theuma parva Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
  • Theuma purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Theuma pusilla Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
  • Theuma recta Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
  • Theuma schreineri Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
  • Theuma schultzei Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
  • Theuma tragardhi Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa
  • Theuma velox Purcell, 1908 – Namibia
  • Theuma walteri (Simon, 1889) (type) – Turkmenistan?
  • Theuma xylina Simon, 1893 – South Africa
  • Theuma zuluensis Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa

See also

  • List of Prodidominae species

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Theuma Simon, 1893. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2461. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. 
  3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226. PMID 34706482. 

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