Tamgrinia

Tamgrinia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus:
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
T. alveolifera
(Schenkel, 1936)
Species

8, see text

Tamgrinia is a genus of Asian funnel weavers first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] They are found in the humid forests of the Himalayas.[3]

Species

As of December 2023 it contains eight species:[1]

  • Tamgrinia alveolifera (Schenkel, 1936) – India, China
  • Tamgrinia coelotiformis (Schenkel, 1963) – China
  • Tamgrinia laticeps (Schenkel, 1936) – China
  • Tamgrinia palpator (Hu & Li, 1987) – China
  • Tamgrinia rectangularis Xu & Li, 2006 – China
  • Tamgrinia semiserrata Xu & Li, 2006 – China
  • Tamgrinia tibetana (Hu & Li, 1987) – China
  • Tamgrinia tulugouensis Wang, 2000 – China

Description

They have a reddish-brown elongate carapace, with short white and long black setae. They have a dark brown abdomen that has dark maculae.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Tamgrinia Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  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.
  3. ^ a b [1]Mondal, Ayan & Chanda, Debomay & Vartak, Atul & Kulkarni, Siddharth. (2020). A Field Guide to the Spider Genera of India.

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