Beregama
Genus of spiders
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Beregama is a genus of South Pacific huntsman spiders. It was first introduced by D. B. Hirst in 1990 by splitting off four species of genus Isopeda.[2]
| Beregama | |
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| Female Beregama aurea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Beregama Hirst, 1990[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. aurea (L. Koch, 1875) | |
| Species | |
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4, see text | |
Species
As of September 2019[update] it contains four species, found in Papua New Guinea and Australia:[1]
- Beregama aurea (L. Koch, 1875) (golden huntsman) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Beregama cordata (L. Koch, 1875) (fire-back huntsman) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Beregama goliath (Chrysanthus, 1965) – New Guinea
- Beregama herculea (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea