Tjurunga is a monotypic genus of Tasmanian sheetweb spiders containing the single species, Tjurunga paroculus.[1] The female of the species was first described by Eugène Simon in 1903 under the name Rubrius paroculus,[2] and it was moved to its own genus in 1967.[3]

Tjurunga paroculus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Stiphidiidae
Genus: Tjurunga
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Species:
T. paroculus
Binomial name
Tjurunga paroculus
(Simon, 1903)

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Tjurunga Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 47: 35. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.25299.
  3. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 271.