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Thiania
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Thiania bhamoensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Thiania
C. L. Koch, 1846 [1]
Type species
T. pulcherrima
C. L. Koch, 1846
Species

23, see text

Synonyms [1]

Thiania is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846. [3]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains twenty-three species, found in Asia from Pakistan to the Philippines, with one species found on Hawaii: [1]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Thiania C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  2. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 32. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. PMID   25947489.
  3. Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. , Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88. pp. 1–234.