Taira (spider)

Genus of spiders

Taira

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Amaurobiidae
Genus:  | Taira
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
T. flavidorsalis (Yaginuma, 1964)

Species

17, see text

Taira is a genus of East Asian tangled nest spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

## Species[edit]

As of March 2022[update] it contains seventeen species:[1]

* Taira borneoensis Zhao, Wang, Irfan & Zhang, 2021 — Malaysia (Borneo)
* Taira cangshan Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
* Taira concava Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
* Taira decorata (Yin & Bao, 2001) — China
* Taira flavidorsalis (Yaginuma, 1964) — China, Japan
* Taira gyaisiensis Zhao, Wang, Irfan & Zhang, 2021 — China
* Taira latilabiata Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
* Taira liboensis Zhu, Chen & Zhang, 2004 — China
* Taira nyagqukaensis Zhao, Wang, Irfan & Zhang, 2021 — China
* Taira obtusa Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
* Taira qiuae Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 — China
* Taira sichuanensis Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 — China
* Taira sulciformis Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
* Taira wanzhouensis Zhao, Wang, Irfan & Zhang, 2021 — China
* Taira xuanenensis Zhao, Wang, Irfan & Zhang, 2021 — China
* Taira yangi Zhao, Wang, Irfan & Zhang, 2021 — China
* Taira zhui Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 — China

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Gen. Taira Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
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.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q3514055
* Wikispecies: Taira
* ADW: Taira
* BioLib: 1025272
* BOLD: 302342
* CoL: 7S2Y
* EoL: 113348
* GBIF: 2141208
* iNaturalist: 418894
* IRMNG: 1293057
* ITIS: 873120
* NCBI: 700687
* uBio: 5048627
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02045

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