Tamgrinia
| Tamgrinia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Tamgrinia Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. alveolifera (Schenkel, 1936)
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| Species | |
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Tamgrinia is a genus of Asian funnel weavers first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] They are found in the humid forests of the Himalayas.[3]
Species
[edit]As of December 2023[update] it contains eight species:[1]
- Tamgrinia alveolifera (Schenkel, 1936) – India, China
- Tamgrinia coelotiformis (Schenkel, 1963) – China
- Tamgrinia laticeps (Schenkel, 1936) – China
- Tamgrinia palpator (Hu & Li, 1987) – China
- Tamgrinia rectangularis Xu & Li, 2006 – China
- Tamgrinia semiserrata Xu & Li, 2006 – China
- Tamgrinia tibetana (Hu & Li, 1987) – China
- Tamgrinia tulugouensis Wang, 2000 – China
Description
[edit]They have a reddish-brown elongate carapace, with short white and long black setae. They have a dark brown abdomen that has dark maculae.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Tamgrinia Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
- ^ a b [1]Mondal, Ayan & Chanda, Debomay & Vartak, Atul & Kulkarni, Siddharth. (2020). A Field Guide to the Spider Genera of India.
External links
[edit]"Tamgrinia" at the Encyclopedia of Life