Tinus (spider)

For other uses, see Tinus (disambiguation).

Tinus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901.^[2]

Tinus
Tinus peregrinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Tinus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901[1]
Type species
T. nigrinus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901
Species
11, see text

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains eleven species, found in Central America, the United States, Mexico, India, Cuba, and on the Greater Antilles:^[1]

• Tinus arindamai Biswas & Roy, 2005 – India
• Tinus connexus (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba, Hispaniola
• Tinus minutus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Mexico to El Salvador
• Tinus nigrinus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (type) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Tinus oaxaca Carico, 2008 – Mexico
• Tinus palictlus Carico, 1976 – Mexico
• Tinus peregrinus (Bishop, 1924) – USA, Mexico
• Tinus prusius Carico, 1976 – Mexico
• Tinus schlingeri Silva, 2012 – Mexico
• Tinus tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Mexico
• Tinus ursus Carico, 1976 – Costa Rica, Panama

See also

• List of Pisauridae species