Biology:Olbus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Olbus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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]

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. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Olbus Simon, 1880. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/564. 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 10: 25–37. doi:10.5962/p.287495. 
  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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