''Neotama'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
tree trunk spiders that was first described by M. Baehr & B. Baehr in 1993.
Species
it contains nine species:
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Neotama corticola''
(Lawrence, 1937) – South Africa
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Neotama cunhabebe''
Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Peru, Brazil
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Neotama forcipata''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico to El Salvador
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Neotama longimana''
Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra)
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Neotama mexicana''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider.
Life and work
Pickard-Cambridge was born in Blox ...
, 1893) – USA to Peru, Guyana
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Neotama obatala''
Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Peru, Brazil, Guyana
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Neotama punctigera''
Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – India
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Neotama rothorum''
Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – India
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Neotama variata''
(Pocock, 1899) (
type) – Sri Lanka
References
Araneomorphae genera
Hersiliidae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of North America
Spiders of South America
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