Tyrotama is a genus of African tree trunk spiders that was first described by S. H. Foord & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman in 2005.[2]
| Tyrotama | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Hersiliidae |
| Genus: | Tyrotama Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. arida (Smithers, 1945)
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| Species | |
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Species
editAs of May 2019[update] it contains eight species:[1]
- Tyrotama abyssus Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
- Tyrotama arida (Smithers, 1945) (type) – South Africa
- Tyrotama australis (Simon, 1893) – South Africa, Lesotho
- Tyrotama bicava (Smithers, 1945) – Namibia
- Tyrotama fragilis (Lawrence, 1928) – Angola, Namibia
- Tyrotama incerta (Tucker, 1920) – South Africa
- Tyrotama soutpansbergensis Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
- Tyrotama taris Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Tyrotama Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ Foord, S. H.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2005). "A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersiliola Thorell and Tama Simon with the description of a new genus Tyrotama (Araneae: Hersiliidae)". African Entomology. 13: 255–279.
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