Theuma (spider)

Theuma is a genus of African long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.^[2] It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018,^[3] then returned in 2022.^[1]

Theuma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Prodidomidae
Genus:	Theuma Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
T. walteri (Simon, 1889)
Species
25, see text

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains twenty-five species, found only in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa:^[1]

• Theuma ababensis Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Theuma andonea Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Theuma aprica Simon, 1893 – South Africa
• Theuma capensis Purcell, 1907 – Botswana, South Africa
• Theuma cedri Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Theuma elucubata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Theuma foveolata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Theuma funerea Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
• Theuma fusca Purcell, 1907 – Namibia, South Africa
• Theuma longipes Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Theuma maculata Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Theuma microphthalma Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
• Theuma mutica Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Theuma ovambica Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Theuma parva Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Theuma purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Theuma pusilla Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
• Theuma recta Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Theuma schreineri Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
• Theuma schultzei Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
• Theuma tragardhi Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa
• Theuma velox Purcell, 1908 – Namibia
• Theuma walteri (Simon, 1889) (type) – Turkmenistan?
• Theuma xylina Simon, 1893 – South Africa
• Theuma zuluensis Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa

See also

• List of Prodidominae species