Caayguara

Caayguara
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Caayguara Rheims, 2010[1]
Type species
C. album (Mello-Leitão, 1918)
Species
12, see text

Caayguara is a genus of Brazilian huntsman spiders that was first described by C. A. Rheims in 2010.[2]

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains twelve species, found in Brazil:[1]

• Caayguara ajuba Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara album (Mello-Leitão, 1918) (type) – Brazil
• Caayguara apiaba Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara atyaia Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara catuoca Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara cupepemassu Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara cupepemayri Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara itajucamussi Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara juati Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara pinda Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara poi Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
• Caayguara ybityriguara Rheims, 2010 – Brazil

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

References

1. "Gen. Caayguara Rheims, 2010". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Rheims, C. A. (2010). "Caayguara, a new genus of huntsman spiders from the Brazilian Atlantic forest (Araneae: Sparassidae)". Zootaxa. 2630: 1–29. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2630.1.1.