Theuma (spider)
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Theuma
| authority = Simon, 1893
| type_species = T. walteri
| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1889)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 25, see text
}}
Theuma is a genus of African long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1893| title=Histoire naturelle das araignées| pages=257–488| publisher=Paris 1| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène_Simon| hdl=2027/coo.31924018394266}} It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018,{{cite journal| last1=Azevedo| first1=G. H. F| last2=Griswold| first2=C. E.| last3=Santos| first3=A. J.| year=2018| title=Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)| journal=Cladistics| volume=34| issue=6| page=614| doi=10.1111/cla.12226| pmid=34706482| s2cid=89926876| doi-access=free}} then returned in 2022.
Species
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains twenty-five species, found only in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Theuma Simon, 1893| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2461| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}
- Theuma ababensis Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- Theuma andonea Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Theuma aprica Simon, 1893 – South Africa
- Theuma capensis Purcell, 1907 – Botswana, South Africa
- Theuma cedri Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
- Theuma elucubata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- Theuma foveolata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- Theuma funerea Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
- Theuma fusca Purcell, 1907 – Namibia, South Africa
- Theuma longipes Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Theuma maculata Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
- Theuma microphthalma Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
- Theuma mutica Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
- Theuma ovambica Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Theuma parva Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
- Theuma purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- Theuma pusilla Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
- Theuma recta Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Theuma schreineri Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
- Theuma schultzei Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
- Theuma tragardhi Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa
- Theuma velox Purcell, 1908 – Namibia
- Theuma walteri (Simon, 1889) (type) – Turkmenistan?
- Theuma xylina Simon, 1893 – South Africa
- Theuma zuluensis Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa
See also
References
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