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Taracus Simon, 1879 is a Holarctic genus of Dyspnoi with a shifting history in taxonomic position. It includes 14 species, with 13 species from USA and 1 from Russia.
Synonymy[]
Taracus Simon 1879c: 74.
Type species[]
Taracus packardi Simon, 1879, by monotypy.
Species list[]
- Taracus aspenae Shear, 2018:525 (USA: Oregon)
- Taracus audisioae Shear, 2016:50 (USA: California)
- Taracus birsteini Lyovushkin, 1971:127 (Russia: Primorsky Krai)
- Taracus carmanah Shear, 2016:34 (Canada: British Colombia)
- Taracus fluvipileus Shear, 2016:40 (USA: California)
- Taracus gertschi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942c:1 (USA: Idaho, Oregon, etc; Canada: Alberta, British Colombia)
- Taracus marchingtoni Shear & Warfel, 2016:36 (USA: Oregon)
- Taracus packardi Simon, 1879c:74 [type by monotypy] (USA: Colorado, New Mexico)
- Taracus pallipes Banks, 1894e:161 (USA: Washington, Oregon, California)
- Taracus silvestrii Roewer, 1929g:10 (USA: Oregon) [incorrect date in Hallan[1]]
- Taracus spesavius Shear, 2016:45 (USA: Nevada)
- Taracus taylori Shear, 2016:42 (USA: Nevada)
- Taracus timpanogos Shear, 2016:47 (USA: Utah)
- Taracus ubicki Shear, 2016:53 (USA: California)
Elsewhere (as of 2023): For Taracus spinosus Banks, 1894 and its synonym Taracus malkini Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945 see Oskoron spinosus (Banks, 1894). For Taracus nigripes Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 see as synonym of Taracus packardi Simon, 1879
Etymology[]
Although Simon has not originally given any explanation about the origin of this name, Gruber (2003) discovered that Taracus is a Hellenized form of the name Taharqa, an Egyptian king of the 25th dynasty. Gender masculine.
Placement[]
Taracus originally in Ischyropsalididae. In Nemastomatidae Ischyropsalinae by Banks (1894d). Transferred to Sabaconidae by Shear (1986). Schönhofer[1] transferred the genus to a new family, Taracidae.