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Tamopsis
Sign in to saveTamopsis is a genus of tree trunk spiders that was first described by B. Baehr & M. Baehr in 1987. Like other members of the family, they may be called two-tailed spiders, referring to two elongated spinnerets. The name is derived from the genus Tama and the Ancient Greek (-opsis), meaning "resembling".
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyHersiliidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 183
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Hersiliidae
- Collections
- MCZ, AM, QM, WAM
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hersiliidae
- Image
- Tamopsis novaehollandiae on hibiscusFLASH.jpg
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- Tamopsis
- taxon name
- Tamopsis
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Tamopsis
- taxon author citation
- Baehr & Baehr, 1987
- taxonomic type
- Tamopsis eucalypti
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Tamopsis is a genus of tree trunk spiders that was first described by B. Baehr & M. Baehr in 1987. Like other members of the family, they may be called two-tailed spiders, referring to two elongated spinnerets. The name is derived from the genus Tama and the Ancient Greek (-opsis), meaning "resembling".
These spiders differ from Tama edwardsi in the more complex palpal bulb and the median apophysis that may either be coiled or have a hook- or spoon-shaped structure at its tip. These species are generally arboreal, where the spiders originally included in Tama in 1987 are mainly terrestrial.
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