Baiami Explained

Baiami is a genus of Australian intertidal spiders that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.^[1] Originally placed with the Stiphidiidae, it was transferred to the Desidae after the results of a 2019 genetic analysis.^[2]

Species

it contains nine species, found in South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia:^[3]

• Baiami brockmani Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami glenelgi Gray, 1981 – Australia (Victoria)
• Baiami loftyensis Gray, 1981 – Australia (South Australia)
• Baiami montana Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami stirlingi Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami storeniformis (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami tegenarioides (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami torbayensis Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami volucripes (Simon, 1908) (type) – Australia (Western Australia)

B. longipes and B. magnus were transferred to Canala, and B. mullamullangensis was transferred to Tartarus.^[4]

See also

• List of Desidae species

Notes and References

1. Lehtinen. P. T.. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 199–468. 4. Pekka_T._Lehtinen.
2. Wheeler. W. C.. etal. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33. 6. 606. 10.1111/cla.12182. 34724759. 35535038.
3. Gen. Baiami Lehtinen, 1967. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
4. Gray. M. R.. 1992. The troglobitic spider genus Tartarus Gray with a cladistic analysis of Tartarus and Baiami Lehtinen (Araneae: Stiphidiidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 113. 166.