Thaumasia is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Josef Anton Maximilian Perty in 1833.[2]

Thaumasia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Thaumasia
Perty, 1833[1]
Type species
T. senilis
Perty, 1833
Species

17, see text

Species edit

As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found in South America, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, and Mexico:[1]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Thaumasia Perty, 1833". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Perty, M. (1833), "Arachnides Brasilienses", in de Spix, J. B.; Martius, F. P. (eds.), Delectus animalium articulatorum quae in itinere per Braziliam ann