Tinus (spider) explained

Tinus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901.

Species

it contains eleven species, found in Central America, the United States, Mexico, India, Cuba, and on the Greater Antilles:^[1]

• Tinus arindamai Biswas & Roy, 2005 – India
• Tinus connexus (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba, Hispaniola
• Tinus minutus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Mexico to El Salvador
• Tinus nigrinus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (type) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Tinus oaxaca Carico, 2008 – Mexico
• Tinus palictlus Carico, 1976 – Mexico
• Tinus peregrinus (Bishop, 1924) – USA, Mexico
• Tinus prusius Carico, 1976 – Mexico
• Tinus schlingeri Silva, 2012 – Mexico
• Tinus tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Mexico
• Tinus ursus Carico, 1976 – Costa Rica, Panama

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

Notes and References

1. Gen. Tinus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-05. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.