Tafana is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.[2]
| Tafana | |
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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: | Anyphaenidae |
| Genus: | Tafana Simon, 1903[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. riveti Simon, 1903
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| Species | |
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16, see text | |
Species edit
As of December 2021[update] it contains sixteen species:[1]
- Tafana arawak de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana chimire de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana huatanay de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
- Tafana humahuaca de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina
- Tafana kunturmarqa de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia
- Tafana maracay de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana nevada de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Venezuela
- Tafana oliviae de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina
- Tafana orinoco de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana pastaza de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Ecuador
- Tafana pitieri de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana quelchi (Pocock, 1895) – Venezuela, Guayana, Brazil
- Tafana riveti Simon, 1903 – Colombia, Peru, Ecuador
- Tafana ruizi de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia
- Tafana silhavyi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
- Tafana straminea (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia, Ecuador
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Tafana Simon, 1903". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions de quelques genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 1903 (6): 123–124. doi:10.3406/bsef.1903.23240. S2CID 164300009.