Thaida

Thaida is a genus of South American cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Austrochilidae, first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1880.^[2] As of April 2019^[update] it contains only two species in Chile and Argentina.^[1]

Thaida
Thaida chepu: 1 – habitat; 2 – web; 3 – frontal view of cephalothorax, showing eyes; 4 – dorsal view of cephalothorax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Austrochilidae
Genus:	Thaida Karsch, 1880[1]
Type species
T. peculiaris Karsch, 1880
Species
T. chepu Platnick, 1987 – Chile T. peculiaris Karsch, 1880 – Chile, Argentina