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Thwaitesia
Sign in to saveThwaitesia 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.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 12 inbound references to Thwaitesia, and connects out to India, China and Australia.
Vinony files it under Araneomorphae genera, Spiders of Africa and Spiders of Asia.
Vinony links it to 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyTheridiidae
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
Wikidata facts
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- Thwaitesia.affinis.female.svg
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- Thwaitesia
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- Thwaitesia
- taxon author citation
- O.P.-Cambridge, 1881
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.