Tafana

Tafana is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.[2]

Tafana
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anyphaenidae
Genus: Tafana
Simon, 1903[1]
Type species
T. riveti
Simon, 1903
Species

16, see text

Species

As of December 2021 it contains sixteen species:[1]

  • Tafana arawak de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana chimire de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana huatanay de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
  • Tafana humahuaca de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina
  • Tafana kunturmarqa de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia
  • Tafana maracay de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana nevada de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Venezuela
  • Tafana oliviae de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina
  • Tafana orinoco de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana pastaza de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Ecuador
  • Tafana pitieri de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana quelchi (Pocock, 1895) – Venezuela, Guayana, Brazil
  • Tafana riveti Simon, 1903 – Colombia, Peru, Ecuador
  • Tafana ruizi de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia
  • Tafana silhavyi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
  • Tafana straminea (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia, Ecuador

References

  1. "Gen. Tafana Simon, 1903". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 16 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions de quelques genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 1903 (6): 123–124. doi:10.3406/bsef.1903.23240. S2CID 164300009.


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