Tafana

Genus of spiders

Tafana

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Anyphaenidae
Genus:  | Tafana
Simon, 1903[1]
Type species
T. riveti

Simon, 1903

Species

16, see text

Tafana is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.[2]

## Species

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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

## References

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1. ^ a b "Gen. Tafana Simon, 1903". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
2. ^ Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions de quelques genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 1903 (6): 123–124\. Bibcode:1903AnSEF...8..123S. doi:10.3406/bsef.1903.23240. S2CID 164300009.123-124&rft.date=1903&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:164300009#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.3406/bsef.1903.23240&rft_id=info:bibcode/1903AnSEF...8..123S&rft.aulast=Simon&rft.aufirst=E.&rft_id=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/41657&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tafana" class="Z3988">

Taxon identifiers

Tafana|

* Wikidata: Q3513781
* Wikispecies: Tafana
* ADW: Tafana
* BioLib: 466575
* CoL: 7RY8
* EoL: 113455
* GBIF: 2154687
* iNaturalist: 419730
* IRMNG: 1293127
* ITIS: 873116
* Open Tree of Life: 3552156
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02157

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