Tasata

Tasata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Anyphaenidae
Genus:	Tasata Simon, 1903
Type species
T. parcepunctata Simon, 1903
Species
15, see text

Tasata is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species, most from Brazil:

• Tasata centralis Ramírez, 2003 – Argentina
• Tasata frenata (Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil
• Tasata fuscotaeniata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Tasata nova (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil
• Tasata parcepunctata Simon, 1903 – Argentina, Uruguay
• Tasata punctata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Tasata quinquenotata (Simon, 1897) – Brazil
• Tasata reticulata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Tasata taim Ramírez, 2003 – Brazil
• Tasata taperae (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
• Tasata tigris Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil
• Tasata tripunctata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Brazil
• Tasata tullgreni Roewer, 1951 – Bolivia
• Tasata unipunctata (Simon, 1897) – Brazil
• Tasata variolosa Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

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