Tafana

Tafana is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.[2]

Tafana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anyphaenidae
Genus: Tafana
Simon, 1903[1]
Type species
T. riveti
Simon, 1903
Species

16, see text

Species

As of December 2021 it contains sixteen species:[1]

  • Tafana arawak de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana chimire de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana huatanay de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
  • Tafana humahuaca de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina
  • Tafana kunturmarqa de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia
  • Tafana maracay de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana nevada de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Venezuela
  • Tafana oliviae de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina
  • Tafana orinoco de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana pastaza de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Ecuador
  • Tafana pitieri de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
  • Tafana quelchi (Pocock, 1895) – Venezuela, Guayana, Brazil
  • Tafana riveti Simon, 1903 – Colombia, Peru, Ecuador
  • Tafana ruizi de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia
  • Tafana silhavyi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
  • Tafana straminea (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia, Ecuador

References

  1. "Gen. Tafana Simon, 1903". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  2. Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions de quelques genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 1903 (6): 123–124. doi:10.3406/bsef.1903.23240. S2CID 164300009.


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