Thaumasia

Thaumasia is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Josef Anton Maximilian Perty in 1833.[2]

Thaumasia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Thaumasia Perty, 1833[1]
Type species
T. senilis Perty, 1833
Species
17, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found in South America, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, and Mexico:[1]

• Thaumasia abrahami Mello-Leitão, 1948 – Honduras to Brazil
• Thaumasia acreana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
• Thaumasia annulipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Suriname, Peru, Brazil
• Thaumasia argenteonotata (Simon, 1898) – Mexico to Brazil
• Thaumasia caracarai Silva & Carico, 2012 – Mexico to Brazil
• Thaumasia caxiuana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
• Thaumasia diasi Silva & Carico, 2012 – Ecuador, Brazil
• Thaumasia heterogyna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama to Brazil
• Thaumasia hirsutochela Silva & Carico, 2012 – Costa Rica to Brazil
• Thaumasia lisei Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
• Thaumasia onca Silva & Carico, 2012 – Colombia to Brazil
• Thaumasia oriximina Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
• Thaumasia peruana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Peru
• Thaumasia scoparia (Simon, 1888) – Venezuela
• Thaumasia senilis Perty, 1833 (type) – Costa Rica to Paraguay
• Thaumasia velox Simon, 1898 – Panama to Argentina
• Thaumasia xingu Silva & Carico, 2012 – Colombia to Brazil

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Thaumasia Perty, 1833". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Perty, M. (1833), "Arachnides Brasilienses", in de Spix, J. B.; Martius, F. P. (eds.), Delectus animalium articulatorum quae in itinere per Braziliam ann