Thwaitesia is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1881. The genus is named after George Henry Kendrick Thwaites.
T. affinis females are long, and males are long. T. bracteata are about the same size. They are similar in appearance to members of both Spintharus and Episinus.
Species it contains twenty-three species, found in the tropics worldwide: Thwaitesia affinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 – Panama to Paraguay Thwaitesia algerica Simon, 1895 – Algeria Thwaitesia argentata Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra) Thwaitesia argenteoguttata (Tullgren, 1910) – Kenya, Tanzania Thwaitesia argenteosquamata (Lenz, 1891) – Madagascar Thwaitesia argentiopunctata (Rainbow, 1916) – Australia (Queensland) Thwaitesia aureosignata (Lenz, 1891) – Madagascar Thwaitesia bracteata (Exline, 1950) – Trinidad, Colombia to Paraguay Thwaitesia dangensis Patel & Patel, 1972 – India Thwaitesia glabicauda Zhu, 1998 – China Thwaitesia inaurata (Vinson, 1863) – Réunion Thwaitesia margaritifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam Thwaitesia meruensis (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania Thwaitesia nigrimaculata Song, Zhang & Zhu, 2006 – China Thwaitesia nigronodosa (Rainbow, 1912) – Australia (Queensland) Thwaitesia phoenicolegna Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar, Vietnam Thwaitesia pulcherrima Butler, 1883 – Madagascar Thwaitesia rhomboidalis Simon, 1903 – Equatorial Guinea Thwaitesia scintillans Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea Thwaitesia simoni (Keyserling, 1884) – Brazil Thwaitesia spinicauda Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar Thwaitesia splendida Keyserling, 1884 – Panama to Venezuela Thwaitesia turbinata Simon, 1903 – Sierra Leone
Formerly included: T. argyrodiformis (Yaginuma, 1952) (Transferred to Chrysso)
Nomen dubium T. conifera (Blackwall, 1862)
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