Tonsilla

Tonsilla is a genus of East Asian funnel weavers first described by J. F. Wang & C. M. Yin in 1992.[2]

This article is about the genus of spiders. For brain anatomy, see Cerebellar tonsil.

Tonsilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Agelenidae
Genus:	Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992[1]
Type species
T. truculenta Wang & Yin, 1992
Species
11, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]

• Tonsilla defossa Xu & Li, 2006 — China
• Tonsilla distalis Zhang, Zhu & Wang, 2017 — China
• Tonsilla eburniformis Wang & Yin, 1992 — China
• Tonsilla lyrata (Wang, Yin, Peng & Xie, 1990) — China
• Tonsilla makros Wang, 2003 — China
• Tonsilla mopanensis Zhang, Zhu & Wang, 2017 — China
• Tonsilla rostrum Jiang, Chen & Zhang, 2018 — China
• Tonsilla tautispina (Wang, Yin, Peng & Xie, 1990) — China
• Tonsilla truculenta Wang & Yin, 1992 — China
• Tonsilla variegata (Wang, Yin, Peng & Xie, 1990) — China
• Tonsilla yanlingensis (Zhang, Yin & Kim, 2000) — China

References

1. "Gen. Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
2. Wang, J. F.; Yin, C. M. (1992). "A new genus and three new species of funnel-web spiders from south China (Araneae: Agelenidae)". Journal of Natural Science of Hunan Normal University. 15: 263–272.