Olbus

Olbus is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1880 as a huntsman spider.[2] It was moved to the sac spider family in 1988,[3] then to the Corinnidae in 2001.[4]

Olbus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Olbus
Simon, 1880[1]
Type species
O. sparassoides
(Nicolet, 1849)
Species

5, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains five species, all found in Chile:[1]

  • Olbus eryngiophilus Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
  • Olbus jaguar Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
  • Olbus krypto Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
  • Olbus nahuelbuta Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
  • Olbus sparassoides (Nicolet, 1849) (type) – Chile

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Olbus Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  2. Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 34: 223–351.
  3. Roth, V. D. (1988). "American Agelenidae and some misidentified spiders (Clubionidae, Oonopidae and Sparassidae) of E. Simon in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.
  4. Ramírez, M. J.; Lopardo, L.; Bonaldo, A. B. (2001). "A review of the Chilean spider genus Olbus, with notes on the relationships of the Corinnidae (Arachnida, Araneae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 31: 445.


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