Tigidia

Tigidia is a genus of brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1892.[4]

Tigidia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Barychelidae
Genus:	Tigidia Simon, 1892[1]
Type species
T. mauriciana Simon, 1892
Species
12, see text
Synonyms[1]
Acropholius Simon, 1902[2] Cestotrema Simon, 1902[2] Forsythula Pocock, 1903[3] Nossibea Strand, 1907[2] Tructicus Strand, 1907[3]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains twelve species:[1]

• Tigidia alluaudi (Simon, 1902) – Madagascar
• Tigidia bastardi (Simon, 1902) – Madagascar
• Tigidia dubia (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar
• Tigidia konkanensis Mirza, Zende & Patil, 2016 – India
• Tigidia majori (Pocock, 1903) – Madagascar
• Tigidia mathiauxi (Simon, 1902) – Madagascar
• Tigidia mauriciana Simon, 1892 (type) – Mauritius
• Tigidia nilgiriensis Sanap, Mirza & Siliwal, 2011 – India
• Tigidia processigera (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar
• Tigidia rutilofronis Sanap, Mirza & Siliwal, 2011 – India
• Tigidia sahyadri Siliwal, Gupta & Raven, 2011 – India
• Tigidia typica (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar

References

1. "Gen. Tigidia Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182.
3. Benoit, P. L. G. (1965). "Les Barychelidae-Diplothelinae africains et malgaches (Araneae-Orthognatha)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 72: 28.
4. Simon, E. (1892). "Etudes arachnologiques". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 61: 271–284.