Beregama
Appearance
Beregama | |
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Female Beregama aurea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Sparassidae |
Genus: | Beregama Hirst, 1990[1] |
Type species | |
B. aurea (L. Koch, 1875)
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Species | |
4, see text |
Beregama is a genus of South Pacific huntsman spiders that was first described by D. B. Hirst in 1990.[2]
Species
[edit]As of September 2019[update] it contains four species, found in Papua New Guinea and Australia:[1]
- Beregama aurea (L. Koch, 1875) (golden huntsman) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Beregama cordata (L. Koch, 1875) (fire-back huntsman) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Beregama goliath (Chrysanthus, 1965) – New Guinea
- Beregama herculea (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Beregama Hirst, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Hirst, D. B. (1990). "A review of the genus Isopeda L. Koch (Heteropodidae: Araneae) in Australasia with descriptions of two new genera". Records of the South Australian Museum. 24 (1): 11–26.