Bolostromus

Bolostromus is a genus of wafer trapdoor spiders that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[3]

Bolostromus Temporal range: Neogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Bolostromus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Cyrtaucheniidae
Genus:	Bolostromus Ausserer, 1875[1]
Type species
B. venustus Ausserer, 1875
Species
9, see text
Synonyms[1]
Phaeoclita Simon, 1889[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains nine species:[1]

• Bolostromus fauna (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
• Bolostromus gaujoni (Simon, 1889) – Ecuador
• Bolostromus holguinensis Rudloff, 1996 – Cuba
• Bolostromus insularis (Simon, 1892) – St. Vincent
• Bolostromus panamanus (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama
• Bolostromus pulchripes (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
• Bolostromus riveti Simon, 1903 – Ecuador
• Bolostromus suspectus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1911 – Uganda
• Bolostromus venustus Ausserer, 1875 (type) – Colombia

References

1. "Gen. Bolostromus Ausserer, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 136.
3. Ausserer, A. (1875). "Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 25: 125–206.