Neotama

Neotama is a genus of tree trunk spiders that was first described by M. Baehr & B. Baehr in 1993.^[2]

Neotama
Neotama mexicana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Hersiliidae
Genus:	Neotama Baehr & Baehr, 1993[1]
Type species
N. variata (Pocock, 1899)
Species
9, see text

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains nine species:^[1]

• Neotama corticola (Lawrence, 1937) – South Africa
• Neotama cunhabebe Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Peru, Brazil
• Neotama forcipata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico to El Salvador
• Neotama longimana Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra)
• Neotama mexicana (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) – USA to Peru, Guyana
• Neotama obatala Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Peru, Brazil, Guyana
• Neotama punctigera Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – India
• Neotama rothorum Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – India
• Neotama variata (Pocock, 1899) (type) – Sri Lanka