''Thysanina'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
n
araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their ...
spiders first described by
Eugène Simon in 1910.
Originally placed with the
Liocranidae
Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus '' Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscure ...
, it was moved to the
Corinnidae
Corinnidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, sometimes called corinnid sac spiders. The family, like other "clubionoid" families, has a confusing taxonomic history. Once it was a part of the large catch-all taxon Clubionidae, now very much small ...
in 2000,
and to the
Trachelidae
Trachelidae is a family of araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The Trachelidae fam ...
in 2014.
Species
it contains six species:
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Thysanina absolvo''
Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – South Africa
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Thysanina capensis''
Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – South Africa
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Thysanina gracilis''
Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – Namibia, South Africa
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Thysanina serica''
Simon, 1910 (
type) – Namibia, South Africa
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Thysanina similis''
Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – Tanzania
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Thysanina transversa''
Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – South Africa
References
Araneomorphae genera
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
Trachelidae
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