Tahuantina

Tahuantina is a monotypic genus of South American cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae containing the single species, Tahuantina zapfeae. It was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967,[2] and has only been found in Chile.[1]

Tahuantina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Tahuantina
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Species:
T. zapfeae
Binomial name
Tahuantina zapfeae
Lehtinen, 1967

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Tahuantina Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.


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