Biology:Theuma (spider)
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Short description: Genus of spiders
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Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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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
- ↑ 1.0 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.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q3523952 entry
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