Nilus (spider)

Nilus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.[3]

Nilus
N. curtus
N. albocinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876[1]
Type species
N. curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876
Species
18, see text
Synonyms[1]
Thalassius Simon, 1885[2]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and India:[1]

• Nilus albocinctus (Doleschall, 1859) – India to Philippines
• Nilus curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) – Africa
• Nilus decorata (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India
• Nilus esimoni (Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar
• Nilus jayakari (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman
• Nilus kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa
• Nilus leoninus (Strand, 1916) – Madagascar
• Nilus majungensis (Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar
• Nilus margaritatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, South Africa
• Nilus massajae (Pavesi, 1883) – Africa
• Nilus paralbocinctus (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos
• Nilus phipsoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – India to China, Indonesia
• Nilus pictus (Simon, 1898) – West, Central Africa
• Nilus pseudoalbocinctus (Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) – India
• Nilus pseudojuvenilis (Sierwald, 1987) – Mozambique
• Nilus radiatolineatus (Strand, 1906) – Africa
• Nilus rossi (Pocock, 1902) – Central, South Africa
• Nilus rubromaculatus (Thorell, 1899) – West, Central Africa

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

References

1. "Gen. Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Jäger, P. (2011). "Revision of the spider genera Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge 1876, Sphedanus Thorell 1877 and Dendrolycosa Doleschall 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae)". Zootaxa. 3046: 4.
3. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876). "Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 44 (3): 541–630.