Decaphora

Decaphora is a genus of huntsman spiders (family Sparassidae) which is found in tropical America. The genus was established by P. Franganillo-Balboa in 1931.^[3]

Decaphora
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Decaphora Franganillo, 1931[1]
Type species
D. cubana (Banks, 1909)
Species
5, see text
Synonyms[1]
Tentabunda Fox, 1937[2]

Species

As of September 2019^[update], it contained five species, found in Central America, Cuba, the Bahamas, Mexico, the United States, and Colombia:^[1]

• Decaphora cubana (Banks, 1909) (type) – USA, Bahamas, Cuba
• Decaphora kohunlich Rheims & Alayón, 2014 – Mexico, Guatemala
• Decaphora pestai (Reimoser, 1939) – Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
• Decaphora planada Rheims, 2017 – Colombia
• Decaphora variabilis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Mexico

See also

• List of Sparassidae species