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Timbuka
Timbuka is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Antônio Brescovit in 1997.
Stenoterommata
Stenoterommata is a genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by E. L. Holmberg in 1881. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020. It is a senior synonym of Ctenochelus.
Nostera
Nostera is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 1991 by Jocqué. , it contains 4 Australian species.
Isicabu
Isicabu is a genus of spiders in the family Cyatholipidae. The genus contains five species, with two endemic to South Africa.
Tuticanus
Tuticanus is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. it contains only two species: T. cruciatus and T. major.
Mangareia
Mangareia is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970. it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand: M. maculata and M. motu.
Syrisca
Syrisca is a genus of spiders in the family Miturgidae. It was first described in 1886 by Simon. , it contains 9 species.
Zosis
Zosis is a genus of spiders in the family Uloboridae. Mostly a South American genus, Z. geniculata has been introduced worldwide.
Gohia
Gohia is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1917.
Caraimatta
Caraimatta is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Tetrablemmidae that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1981.
Phalaeops
Phalaeops is a genus of East African nursery web spiders that was first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1955. it contains only two species, found only in Djibouti and Mozambique: P. mossambicus and P. somalicus.
Liocranoides
Liocranoides is a genus of American false wolf spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881. They live in habitats with cold surfaces, such as caves. It was transferred from the sac spiders to the Tengellidae in 1967, which was later merged with Zoropsidae.
Rejanellus
Rejanellus is a genus of spiders in the family Thomisidae. It was first described in 2005 by Lise. , it contains 4 species.
Goyenia
Goyenia is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.
Capheris
Capheris is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae with thirteen species from sub-Saharan Africa and India. It was first described in 1893 by Eugène Louis Simon.
Drassinella
Drassinella is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders in the family Phrurolithidae, first described by Nathan Banks in 1904.
Lamina
genus of arachnids
Notsodipus
Notsodipus is a genus of Australian white tailed spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 2000.
Hapona
Hapona is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970. Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.
Meriola
Meriola is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by Nathan Banks in 1895.
Orsinome
Orsinome is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890. It is included in the Nanometa clade, defined by nine morphological synapomorphies, along with Eryciniolia and Nanometa.
Pandava
genus of arachnids
Erissoides
Erissoides is a genus of South American crab spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1929. it contains two species, both found in Brazil: E. striatus and E. vittatus.
Savarna
Savarna is a genus of Southeast Asian cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2005.
Longepi
Longepi is a genus of Australian white tailed spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 2000.
Wulfilopsis
Wulfilopsis is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by B. A. M. Soares & Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo in 1955.
Rorea
Rorea is a genus of intertidal spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand.
Cyrioctea
Cyrioctea is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae, first described in 1889 by Eugène Simon. It contains fourteen species, found in Africa, South America, and Australia.
Archoleptoneta
Archoleptoneta is a genus of North American spiders that was first described by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker in 1974. it contains only two species, both found in the United States: A. gertschi and A. schusteri.
Micropoltys
Micropoltys is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Władysław Kulczyński in 1911.
Orsolobus
Orsolobus is a genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.
Tagulis
Tagulis is a genus of crab spiders in the family Thomisidae, with two described species.
Enna
genus of arachnids
Osoriella
Osoriella is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1922.
Taphiassa
Taphiassa is a genus of spiders in the family Anapidae. It was first described in 1880 by Simon. , it contains 6 species.
Phyxelida
Phyxelida is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.
Cycais
Cycais is a genus of Asian corinnid sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877. it contains only two species, one from Sulawesi and one from Japan.
Sahastata
Sahastata is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pierre L.G. Benoit in 1968.
Mysmenopsis
Mysmenopsis is a kleptoparasitic genus of tiny tropical and subtropical American spiders in the family Mysmenidae. Most live in the funnelwebs of spiders in the family Dipluridae. M. archeri lives on webs of a species in the family Pholcidae, M. capac and M. cienaga have been observed living in Cyrtophora (Araneidae) webs. One reason why diplurid webs are preferred seems to be that they are persistent in time and space, sometimes spanning several years.
Sudharmia
Sudharmia is a genus of spiders in the family Liocranidae. It was first described in 2001 by Deeleman-Reinhold. , it contains three species, all found in Sumatra.
Zealanapis
Zealanapis is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, first described by Norman I. Platnick & Raymond Robert Forster in 1989.
Raecius
Raecius is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Udubidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1892.
Dundocera
Dundocera is a genus of spiders in the family Ochyroceratidae. It was first described in 1951 by Machado. , it contains 3 species, all from Angola.
Hulua
Hulua is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.
Physocyclus
Physocyclus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.
Ovobulbus
Ovobulbus is a genus of spiders in the family Oonopidae. It was first described in 2007 by Saaristo. , it contains 3 species found in Egypt and Israel.
Myandra
Myandra is a genus of South Pacific ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.
Mesabolivar
Mesabolivar is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by M. A. González-Sponga in 1998.
Pahoroides
Pahoroides is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.
Phrurotimpus
Phrurotimpus is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin and Wilton Ivie in 1935. The name is a compound adjective meaning "guarding the stone". Originally added to the Liocranidae, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002, then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014. They have red egg sacs that look like flattened discs, often found on the underside of stones.
Hygropoda
Hygropoda is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1894.
Epimecinus
Epimecinus is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1908.
Pentasteron
Pentasteron is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 2001 by Baehr & Jocqué. , it contains 8 Australian species.
Synotaxus
Synotaxus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synotaxidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895. Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the family Synotaxidae in 2017.
Paranapis
Paranapis is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, first described by Norman I. Platnick & Raymond Robert Forster in 1989. it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand.
Asadipus
Asadipus is a genus of Australian white tailed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1897. Originally placed with the Corinnidae, it was moved to the Lamponidae in 2000.
Zelanda
Zelanda is a genus of South Pacific ground spiders that was first described by H. Özdikmen in 2009.
Euryeidon
Euryeidon is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 2004 by Dankittipakul & Jocqué. , it contains 6 species, all from Thailand.
Micropholcus
Micropholcus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold & J. D. Prinsen in 1987.
Platorish
Platorish is a genus of spiders in the family Trachycosmidae. It was first described in 2002 by Platnick. , it contains 5 Australian species.