''Thwaitesia'' is a

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of comb-footed spiders that was first described by

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider from a large collection that he made with contrib ...

in 1881. The genus is named after

George Henry Kendrick Thwaites George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (9 July 1812, Bristol – 11 September 1882, Kandy) was an English botanist and entomologist. Career Thwaites was initially an accountant and studied botany during his spare time. He was interested particularly ...

. ''T. affinis'' females are long, and males are long. ''T. bracteata'' are about the same size. They are similar in appearance to members of both '' Spintharus'' and '' Episinus''.

Species

it contains twenty-three species, found in the tropics worldwide: *'' Thwaitesia affinis'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 – Panama to Paraguay *'' Thwaitesia algerica'' Simon, 1895 –

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*'' Thwaitesia argentata'' Thorell, 1890 –

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(

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) *'' Thwaitesia argenteoguttata'' ( Tullgren, 1910) –

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*'' Thwaitesia argenteosquamata'' (Lenz, 1891) –

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*'' Thwaitesia argentiopunctata'' (Rainbow, 1916) –

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(

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) *'' Thwaitesia aureosignata'' (Lenz, 1891) – Madagascar *'' Thwaitesia bracteata'' (Exline, 1950) –

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, Colombia to Paraguay *'' Thwaitesia dangensis'' Patel & Patel, 1972 –

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*'' Thwaitesia glabicauda'' Zhu, 1998 –

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*'' Thwaitesia inaurata'' (Vinson, 1863) –

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*'' Thwaitesia margaritifera'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 (

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) – India,

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, China,

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*'' Thwaitesia meruensis'' (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania *'' Thwaitesia nigrimaculata'' Song, Zhang & Zhu, 2006 – China *'' Thwaitesia nigronodosa'' (Rainbow, 1912) – Australia (Queensland) *'' Thwaitesia phoenicolegna'' Thorell, 1895 –

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, Vietnam *'' Thwaitesia pulcherrima''

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, 1883 – Madagascar *'' Thwaitesia rhomboidalis'' Simon, 1903 –

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*'' Thwaitesia scintillans'' Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea *'' Thwaitesia simoni'' ( Keyserling, 1884) –

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*'' Thwaitesia spinicauda'' Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar *'' Thwaitesia splendida'' Keyserling, 1884 – Panama to Venezuela *'' Thwaitesia turbinata'' Simon, 1903 –

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Formerly included: *''T. argyrodiformis'' (Yaginuma, 1952) (Transferred to ''

Chrysso ''Chrysso'' is a genus of Theridiidae, comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ''C. pulcherrima'' is pantropical, ''C. spiniventris'' has been introduced to Europe, and ''C. nordica'' occurs both in Nor ...

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*''T. conifera'' (Blackwall, 1862)

Species

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