Thaumasia Explained

Thaumasia should not be confused with Thaumasia Planum.

Thaumasia is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Josef Anton Maximilian Perty in 1833.

Species

it contains seventeen species, found in South America, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, and Mexico:^[1]

• Thaumasia abrahami Mello-Leitão, 1948 – Honduras to Brazil
• Thaumasia acreana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
• Thaumasia annulipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Suriname, Peru, Brazil
• Thaumasia argenteonotata (Simon, 1898) – Mexico to Brazil
• Thaumasia caracarai Silva & Carico, 2012 – Mexico to Brazil
• Thaumasia caxiuana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
• Thaumasia diasi Silva & Carico, 2012 – Ecuador, Brazil
• Thaumasia heterogyna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama to Brazil
• Thaumasia hirsutochela Silva & Carico, 2012 – Costa Rica to Brazil
• Thaumasia lisei Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
• Thaumasia onca Silva & Carico, 2012 – Colombia to Brazil
• Thaumasia oriximina Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
• Thaumasia peruana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Peru
• Thaumasia scoparia (Simon, 1888) – Venezuela
• Thaumasia senilis Perty, 1833 (type) – Costa Rica to Paraguay
• Thaumasia velox Simon, 1898 – Panama to Argentina
• Thaumasia xingu Silva & Carico, 2012 – Colombia to Brazil

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

Notes and References

1. Gen. Thaumasia Perty, 1833. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-05. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.