''Thysanina'' is a

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araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

spiders first described by

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in 1910. Originally placed with the

Liocranidae Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus '' Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscur ...

, it was moved to the

Corinnidae Corinnidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, sometimes called corinnid sac spiders. The family, like other "clubionoid" families, has a confusing taxonomic history. Once it was a part of the large catch-all taxon Clubionidae, now very much sm ...

in 2000, and to the

Trachelidae Trachelidae is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The ...

in 2014.

Species

it contains six species: *'' Thysanina absolvo'' Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – South Africa *'' Thysanina capensis'' Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – South Africa *'' Thysanina gracilis'' Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – Namibia, South Africa *'' Thysanina serica'' Simon, 1910 (

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) – Namibia, South Africa *'' Thysanina similis'' Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – Tanzania *'' Thysanina transversa'' Lyle & Haddad, 2006 – South Africa

References

Araneomorphae genera Taxa named by Eugène Simon Trachelidae {{Trachelidae-stub