Thaida

Thaida
Thaida chepu: 1 – habitat; 2 – web; 3 – frontal view of cephalothorax, showing eyes; 4 – dorsal view of cephalothorax
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Austrochilidae
Genus:	Thaida Karsch, 1880[1]
Type species
T. peculiaris Karsch, 1880
Species
T. chepu Platnick, 1987 – Chile T. peculiaris Karsch, 1880 – Chile, Argentina

Thaida is a genus of South American cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Austrochilidae, first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1880.^[2] As of April 2019^[update] it contains only two species in Chile and Argentina.^[1]

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Thaida Karsch, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
2. Karsch, F. (1880). "Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I)". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Dritte Folge. 5: 373–409.