Genus of spiders
Tafana is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.[2]
As of December 2021[update] it contains sixteen species:[1]
- Tafana arawak de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana chimire de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana huatanay de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
- Tafana humahuaca de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina
- Tafana kunturmarqa de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia
- Tafana maracay de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana nevada de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Venezuela
- Tafana oliviae de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina
- Tafana orinoco de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana pastaza de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Ecuador
- Tafana pitieri de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela
- Tafana quelchi (Pocock, 1895) – Venezuela, Guayana, Brazil
- Tafana riveti Simon, 1903 – Colombia, Peru, Ecuador
- Tafana ruizi de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia
- Tafana silhavyi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
- Tafana straminea (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia, Ecuador