Wirada

Wirada
female W. punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Wirada Keyserling, 1886
Type species
W. punctata Keyserling, 1886
Species
6, see text

Wirada is a genus of comb-footed spiders (family Theridiidae) that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1886.

W. tovarensis is 1 millimetre (0.039 in) long. W. punctata males have a body length of 1.4 millimetres (0.055 in), while females have a body length of 1.5 millimetres (0.059 in).

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains six species, found in South America and Mexico:

• Wirada araucaria Lise, Silva & Bertoncello, 2009 – Brazil
• Wirada mexicana Campuzano & Ibarra-Núñez, 2018 – Mexico
• Wirada punctata Keyserling, 1886 (type) – Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
• Wirada sigillata Lise, Silva & Bertoncello, 2009 – Brazil, Argentina
• Wirada tijuca Levi, 1967 – Brazil
• Wirada tovarensis Simon, 1895 – Venezuela

In synonymy:

• W. rugithorax Simon, 1895 = Wirada punctata Keyserling, 1886

References

Further reading

• Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
• Lise, A. A.; Silva, E. L. C. da; Bertoncello, L. A. (2009). "Two new species of the Neotropical spider genus Wirada Keyserling, 1886 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from southern Brazil". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 44 (3): 183–194. Bibcode:2009SNFE...44..183L. doi:10.1080/01650520903467403. S2CID 86655438.
• Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.
• Campuzano, E. F.; Ibarra-Núñez, G. (2018). "A new species of the spider genus Wirada (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Mexico, with taxonomic notes on the genus and a key to the species". Zootaxa. 4457 (3): 495–500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.13. PMID 30314166.