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Genus: Tyrotama Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 | Family: Hersiliidae Thorell, 1869

Tyrotama arida Smithers, 1945

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa jf (B3552) of Tama obscura [subadult per Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005a] - (Smithers, 1945)
Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 1m 1f (9298, 9578) - (Smithers, 1945)

Taxonomic References

Tama arida Smithers, 1945: 10, f. 1-2, 7b, 8 (Dmf) Original description

Tama obscura Smithers, 1945: 12, f. 7c, 9a (Dj)

Tyrotama arida Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005a: 266, f. 6A-G (mf, T from Tama, S of Tama obscura)

Tyrotama arida Foord, 2008: 128, f. 33-36 (mf)

Tyrotama arida Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020e: 15, p. 13: 2 f., p. 15: 6 f. (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020e). The Hersiliidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 23 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5913607 -- Show included taxa

Foord, S. H. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2005a). A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersiliola Thorell and Tama Simon with the description of a new genus Tyrotama (Araneae: Hersiliidae). African Entomology 13: 255-279. -- Show included taxa

Foord, S. H. (2008). Cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical Hersiliidae (Arachnida, Araneae) with the first records of Murricia and the description of a new genus from Madagascar. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 111-142. -- Show included taxa

Smithers, R. H. N. (1945). The Hersiliidae (Araneae) of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 31: 1-18. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-12-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020e