title: Thaumasia
text: # Thaumasia
  
  Thaumasia is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Josef Anton Maximilian Perty in 1833.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found in South America, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, and Mexico:
  
  * Thaumasia abrahami Mello-Leitão, 1948 – Honduras to Brazil
  * Thaumasia acreana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
  * Thaumasia annulipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Suriname, Peru, Brazil
  * Thaumasia argenteonotata (Simon, 1898) – Mexico to Brazil
  * Thaumasia caracarai Silva & Carico, 2012 – Mexico to Brazil
  * Thaumasia caxiuana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
  * Thaumasia diasi Silva & Carico, 2012 – Ecuador, Brazil
  * Thaumasia heterogyna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama to Brazil
  * Thaumasia hirsutochela Silva & Carico, 2012 – Costa Rica to Brazil
  * Thaumasia lisei Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
  * Thaumasia onca Silva & Carico, 2012 – Colombia to Brazil
  * Thaumasia oriximina Silva & Carico, 2012 – Brazil
  * Thaumasia peruana Silva & Carico, 2012 – Peru
  * Thaumasia scoparia (Simon, 1888) – Venezuela
  * Thaumasia senilis Perty, 1833 (type) – Costa Rica to Paraguay
  * Thaumasia velox Simon, 1898 – Panama to Argentina
  * Thaumasia xingu Silva & Carico, 2012 – Colombia to Brazil
  