Wamba (spider)

Wamba is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1896.^[3] As of September 2019^[update] it contains three species, found in the Americas, including the Caribbean: W. congener, W. crispulus, and W. panamensis.^[1]

Wamba
W. crispulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Wamba O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896[1]
Type species
W. congener O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
Species
W. congener O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – USA, Caribbean to Argentina W. crispulus (Simon, 1895) – Canada to Brazil, Caribbean W. panamensis (Levi, 1959) – Panama, Ecuador
Synonyms[1][2]
Allodipoena Bryant, 1947 Chindellum Archer, 1950

See also

• List of Theridiidae species