Tyrotama

<i>Tyrotama</i>

Tyrotama

Genus of spiders

Tyrotama is a genus of African tree trunk spiders that was first described by S. H. Foord & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman in 2005.[2]

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Species

As of May 2019 it contains eight species:[1]

  • Tyrotama abyssus Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
  • Tyrotama arida (Smithers, 1945) (type) – South Africa
  • Tyrotama australis (Simon, 1893) – South Africa, Lesotho
  • Tyrotama bicava (Smithers, 1945) – Namibia
  • Tyrotama fragilis (Lawrence, 1928) – Angola, Namibia
  • Tyrotama incerta (Tucker, 1920) – South Africa
  • Tyrotama soutpansbergensis Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
  • Tyrotama taris Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa

References

  1. [1]
    "Gen. Tyrotama Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  2. [2]
    Foord, S. H.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2005). "A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersiliola Thorell and Tama Simon with the description of a new genus Tyrotama (Araneae: Hersiliidae)". African Entomology. 13: 255–279.


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