Tylorida Explained

Tylorida is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.^[1]

Species

it contains eight species, found in Oceania, Africa, and Asia:^[2]

• Tylorida flava Sankaran, Malamel, Joseph & Sebastian, 2017 – India
• Tylorida marmorea (Pocock, 1901) – India, China
• Tylorida mengla Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
• Tylorida mornensis (Benoit, 1978) – Seychelles
• Tylorida seriata Thorell, 1899 – West Africa, Cameroon
• Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877) (type) – Comoros, India, China, SE Asia to Australia (Queensland)
• Tylorida tianlin Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China, Laos
• Tylorida ventralis (Thorell, 1877) – India to Taiwan, Japan, New Guinea

In synonymy:

• T. concretipalpis (Schmidt & Krause, 1993) = Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877)
• T. cylindrata (Wang, 1991) = Tylorida marmorea (Pocock, 1901)
• T. magniventer Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 = Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877)
• T. nicobarensis (Tikader, 1977) = Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877)
• T. pondae (Tikader, 1970) = Tylorida ventralis (Thorell, 1877)
• T. sataraensis Kulkarni, 2014 = Tylorida marmorea (Pocock, 1901)
• T. sphenoida (Wang, 1991) = Tylorida ventralis (Thorell, 1877)
• T. stellimicans (Simon, 1885) = Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877)

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Tylorida Simon, 1894. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-12-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.