Beregama

Beregama
Female Beregama aurea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Beregama Hirst, 1990 [1]
Type species
B. aurea (L. Koch, 1875)
Species
4, see text

Beregama is a genus of South Pacific huntsman spiders. It was first introduced by D. B. Hirst in 1990 by splitting off four species of genus Isopeda . ^[2]

Species

As of September 2019 ^[update] it contains four species, found in Papua New Guinea and Australia: ^[1]

• Beregama aurea (L. Koch, 1875) (golden huntsman) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Beregama cordata (L. Koch, 1875) (fire-back huntsman) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Beregama goliath (Chrysanthus, 1965) – New Guinea
• Beregama herculea (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea

References

1. "Gen. Beregama Hirst, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Hirst, D. B. (1990). "A review of the genus Isopeda L. Koch (Heteropodidae: Araneae) in Australasia with descriptions of two new genera". Records of the South Australian Museum. 24 (1): 11–26.