Tasata Explained

Tasata is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.^[1]

Species

it contains fifteen species, most from Brazil:^[2]

• Tasata centralis Ramírez, 2003 – Argentina
• Tasata frenata (Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil
• Tasata fuscotaeniata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Tasata nova (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil
• Tasata parcepunctata Simon, 1903 – Argentina, Uruguay
• Tasata punctata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Tasata quinquenotata (Simon, 1897) – Brazil
• Tasata reticulata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Tasata taim Ramírez, 2003 – Brazil
• Tasata taperae (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
• Tasata tigris Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil
• Tasata tripunctata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Brazil
• Tasata tullgreni Roewer, 1951 – Bolivia
• Tasata unipunctata (Simon, 1897) – Brazil
• Tasata variolosa Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1903. Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 21–39. 47. 10.5962/bhl.part.25299. free.
2. Web site: Gen. Tasata Simon, 1903. World Spider Catalog. 2019-05-10. Natural History Museum Bern.