Synotaxus

Synotaxus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synotaxidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[2] Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the Synotaxidae in 2017.[3]

Synotaxus Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Synotaxidae
Genus:	Synotaxus Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
S. turbinatus Simon, 1895
Species
11, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains eleven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, and on Trinidad:[1]

• Synotaxus bonaldoi Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
• Synotaxus brescoviti Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
• Synotaxus ecuadorensis Exline, 1950 – Costa Rica to Ecuador
• Synotaxus itabaiana Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
• Synotaxus jaraguari Souza, Brescovit & Araujo, 2017 – Brazil
• Synotaxus leticia Exline & Levi, 1965 – Colombia
• Synotaxus longicaudatus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Synotaxus monoceros (Caporiacco, 1947) – Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil
• Synotaxus siolii Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
• Synotaxus turbinatus Simon, 1895 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
• Synotaxus waiwai Agnarsson, 2003 – Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay

See also

• List of Synotaxidae species

References

1. "Gen. Synotaxus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.
3. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 96.