Thwaitesia

Thwaitesia is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1881. The genus is named after George Henry Kendrick Thwaites.

T. affinis females are long, and males are long. T. bracteata are about the same size. They are similar in appearance to members of both Spintharus and Episinus.

Species

it contains twenty-three species, found in the tropics worldwide:

• Thwaitesia affinis <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882</small> – Panama to Paraguay
• Thwaitesia algerica <small>Simon, 1895</small> – Algeria
• Thwaitesia argentata <small>Thorell, 1890</small> – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Thwaitesia argenteoguttata <small>(Tullgren, 1910)</small> – Kenya, Tanzania
• Thwaitesia argenteosquamata <small>(Lenz, 1891)</small> – Madagascar
• Thwaitesia argentiopunctata <small>(Rainbow, 1916)</small> – Australia (Queensland)
• Thwaitesia aureosignata <small>(Lenz, 1891)</small> – Madagascar
• Thwaitesia bracteata <small>(Exline, 1950)</small> – Trinidad, Colombia to Paraguay
• Thwaitesia dangensis <small>Patel & Patel, 1972</small> – India
• Thwaitesia glabicauda <small>Zhu, 1998</small> – China
• Thwaitesia inaurata <small>(Vinson, 1863)</small> – Réunion
• Thwaitesia margaritifera <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881</small> (type) – India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam
• Thwaitesia meruensis <small>(Tullgren, 1910)</small> – Tanzania
• Thwaitesia nigrimaculata <small>Song, Zhang & Zhu, 2006</small> – China
• Thwaitesia nigronodosa <small>(Rainbow, 1912)</small> – Australia (Queensland)
• Thwaitesia phoenicolegna <small>Thorell, 1895</small> – Myanmar, Vietnam
• Thwaitesia pulcherrima <small>Butler, 1883</small> – Madagascar
• Thwaitesia rhomboidalis <small>Simon, 1903</small> – Equatorial Guinea
• Thwaitesia scintillans <small>Kulczyński, 1911</small> – New Guinea
• Thwaitesia simoni <small>(Keyserling, 1884)</small> – Brazil
• Thwaitesia spinicauda <small>Thorell, 1895</small> – Myanmar
• Thwaitesia splendida <small>Keyserling, 1884</small> – Panama to Venezuela
• Thwaitesia turbinata <small>Simon, 1903</small> – Sierra Leone

Formerly included:

• T. argyrodiformis <small>(Yaginuma, 1952)</small> (Transferred to Chrysso)

Nomen dubium

• T. conifera <small>(Blackwall, 1862)</small>

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