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Thwaitesia

Durán-Barrón, César G.;Rosas, María V.;Contreras-Ramos, Atilano

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Thwaitesia

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Thwaitesia is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1881. The genus is named after George Henry Kendrick Thwaites.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyTheridiidae
Observations recorded1,891

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
262
With media
4
Family
Theridiidae
Collections
MNRJ, MCZ, CASC, UNM, AM
Recorded in
Brasil, Colombia, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Australia

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Thwaitesia is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1881. The genus is named after George Henry Kendrick Thwaites.

T. affinis females are long, and males are long. T. bracteata are about the same size. They are similar in appearance to members of both Spintharus and Episinus.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thwaitesia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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