''Tafana'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

n anyphaenid sac spiders first described by

Eugène Simon Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...

in 1903.

Species

it contains sixteen species: *'' Tafana arawak'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela *'' Tafana chimire'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela *'' Tafana huatanay'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia *'' Tafana humahuaca'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina *'' Tafana kunturmarqa'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia *'' Tafana maracay'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela *'' Tafana nevada'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia, Venezuela *'' Tafana oliviae'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Argentina *'' Tafana orinoco'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela *'' Tafana pastaza'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Ecuador *'' Tafana pitieri'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Venezuela *'' Tafana quelchi'' (Pocock, 1895) – Venezuela, Guayana, Brazil *'' Tafana riveti'' Simon, 1903 – Colombia, Peru, Ecuador *'' Tafana ruizi'' de Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021 – Colombia *'' Tafana silhavyi'' (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela *'' Tafana straminea'' (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia, Ecuador

References

Anyphaenidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of South America Taxa named by Eugène Simon {{Anyphaenidae-stub