Theuma (spider)

Theuma is a genus of African long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893. It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018, then returned in 2022.

Species
it contains twenty-five species, found only in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa:
 * Theuma ababensis Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
 * Theuma andonea Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
 * Theuma aprica Simon, 1893 – South Africa
 * Theuma capensis Purcell, 1907 – Botswana, South Africa
 * Theuma cedri Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
 * Theuma elucubata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
 * Theuma foveolata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
 * Theuma funerea Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
 * Theuma fusca Purcell, 1907 – Namibia, South Africa
 * Theuma longipes Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
 * Theuma maculata Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
 * Theuma microphthalma Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
 * Theuma mutica Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
 * Theuma ovambica Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
 * Theuma parva Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
 * Theuma purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
 * Theuma pusilla Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
 * Theuma recta Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
 * Theuma schreineri Purcell, 1907 – South Africa
 * Theuma schultzei Purcell, 1908 – Namibia, South Africa
 * Theuma tragardhi Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa
 * Theuma velox Purcell, 1908 – Namibia
 * Theuma walteri (Simon, 1889) (type) – Turkmenistan?
 * Theuma xylina Simon, 1893 – South Africa
 * Theuma zuluensis Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa