Taczanowskia

Taczanowskia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1879.[2]

Taczanowskia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l.
Genus: Taczanowskia
Keyserling, 1879[1]
Type species
T. striata
Keyserling, 1879
Species

5, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains five species from South America and Mexico:[1]

  • Taczanowskia gustavoi Ibarra-Núñez, 2013 – Mexico
  • Taczanowskia mirabilis Simon, 1897 – Bolivia, Brazil
  • Taczanowskia sextuberculata Keyserling, 1892 – Colombia, Brazil
  • Taczanowskia striata Keyserling, 1879 (type) – Peru, Brazil, Argentina
  • Taczanowskia trilobata Simon, 1897 – Brazil

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Taczanowskia Keyserling, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  2. Keyserling, E. (1879). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 29: 293–349.


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