Theuma (spider)

Theuma is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[2] Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.[3]

Theuma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Theuma Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
T. walteri (Simon, 1889)
Species
26, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains twenty-six 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 intermedia Strand, 1915 – Namibia
• 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 Gnaphosidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Theuma Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. hdl:2027/coo.31924018394266.
3. 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.