Thwaitesia

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Thwaitesia

| image = Thwaitesia.affinis.female.svg

| image_caption = T. affinis, female

| image2 = Bling Spider - Neon Spider - Thwaitsia sp. from the NSW Central Coast (7).jpg

| image2_caption = Thwaitesia sp. from the NSW Central Coast

| authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881

| type_species = T. margaritifera

| type_species_authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 23, see text

| synonyms =

Topo Exline, 1950{{cite journal| last1=Levi| first1=H. W.| last2=Levi| first2=L. R.| year=1962| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=127| page=31}}

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Thwaitesia is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1881.{{cite journal| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1881| title=On some new genera and species of Araneidea| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=765–775| volume=49| issue=3| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1881.tb01333.x| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/58742| author-link=Octavius Pickard-Cambridge}} The genus is named after George Henry Kendrick Thwaites.{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Val |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132874317 |title=Common Ground: Who's who in New Zealand botanical names. Supplement Two: Who's who in New Zealand botanical names. Supplement Two |date=2023-01-01 |language=English}}

T. affinis females are {{convert|4.6|mm}} long, and males are {{convert|2.7|mm}} long. T. bracteata are about the same size. They are similar in appearance to members of both Spintharus and Episinus.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Species

{{as of|2020|06}} it contains twenty-three species, found in the tropics worldwide:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Thwaitesia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-14| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3552| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

Thwaitesia affinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 – Panama to Paraguay
Thwaitesia algerica Simon, 1895 – Algeria
Thwaitesia argentata Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
Thwaitesia argenteoguttata (Tullgren, 1910) – Kenya, Tanzania
Thwaitesia argenteosquamata (Lenz, 1891) – Madagascar
Thwaitesia argentiopunctata (Rainbow, 1916) – Australia (Queensland)
Thwaitesia aureosignata (Lenz, 1891) – Madagascar
Thwaitesia bracteata (Exline, 1950) – Trinidad, Colombia to Paraguay
Thwaitesia dangensis Patel & Patel, 1972 – India
Thwaitesia glabicauda Zhu, 1998 – China
Thwaitesia inaurata (Vinson, 1863) – Réunion
Thwaitesia margaritifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam
Thwaitesia meruensis (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
Thwaitesia nigrimaculata Song, Zhang & Zhu, 2006 – China
Thwaitesia nigronodosa (Rainbow, 1912) – Australia (Queensland)
Thwaitesia phoenicolegna Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar, Vietnam
Thwaitesia pulcherrima Butler, 1883 – Madagascar
Thwaitesia rhomboidalis Simon, 1903 – Equatorial Guinea
Thwaitesia scintillans Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea
Thwaitesia simoni (Keyserling, 1884) – Brazil
Thwaitesia spinicauda Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
Thwaitesia splendida Keyserling, 1884 – Panama to Venezuela
Thwaitesia turbinata Simon, 1903 – Sierra Leone

Formerly included:

T. argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) (Transferred to Chrysso)

Nomen dubium

T. conifera (Blackwall, 1862)

Thwaitesia

Species

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