Biology:Tyrotama

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Tyrotama
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hersiliidae
Genus: Tyrotama
Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005[1]
Type species
T. arida
(Smithers, 1945)
Species

8, see text

Tyrotama is a genus of African tree trunk spiders that was first described by S. H. Foord & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman in 2005.[2]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains eight species:[1]

  • Tyrotama abyssus Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
  • Tyrotama arida (Smithers, 1945) (type) – South Africa
  • Tyrotama australis (Simon, 1893) – South Africa, Lesotho
  • Tyrotama bicava (Smithers, 1945) – Namibia
  • Tyrotama fragilis (Lawrence, 1928) – Angola, Namibia
  • Tyrotama incerta (Tucker, 1920) – South Africa
  • Tyrotama soutpansbergensis Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
  • Tyrotama taris Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Tyrotama Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1058. Retrieved 2019-06-09. 
  2. Foord, S. H.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2005). "A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersiliola Thorell and Tama Simon with the description of a new genus Tyrotama (Araneae: Hersiliidae).". African Entomology 13: 255–279. 

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