Biology:Orthobula
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Orthobula is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a member of Liocranidae.[1] It was transferred to Corinnidae in 2002,[2] to Phrurolithidae in 2014,[3] and to Trachelidae in 2017.[4]
Species

As of October 2025[update], this genus includes 25 species:[5]
- Orthobula aethiopica Haddad, Jin & Platnick, 2022 – Ethiopia
- Orthobula arca Haddad, Jin & Platnick, 2022 – South Africa
- Orthobula bilobata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is.)
- Orthobula calceata Simon, 1897 – Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo
- Orthobula charitonovi (Mikhailov, 1986) – Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia
- Orthobula chayuensis Yang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China
- Orthobula crucifera Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – China, Korea, Japan
- Orthobula impressa Simon, 1897 – India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Réunion (type species)
- Orthobula jiangxi Liu, 2022 – China
- Orthobula marusiki Haddad, Jin & Platnick, 2022 – Gambia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Rep.
- Orthobula mikhailovi Marusik, 2021 – Iran
- Orthobula milloti Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Orthobula nigra He & Jin, 2024 – China
- Orthobula puncta Yang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China
- Orthobula pura Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
- Orthobula qinghaiensis Hu, 2001 – China
- Orthobula quadrinotata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Borneo, Sulawesi)
- Orthobula radiata Simon, 1897 – Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
- Orthobula sicca Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
- Orthobula spiniformis Tso, Zhu, J. X. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2005 – Taiwan
- Orthobula sudamericana Piñanez & Munévar, 2022 – Paraguay, Argentina
- Orthobula tibenensis Hu, 2001 – China
- Orthobula trinotata Simon, 1896 – Philippines
- Orthobula yaginumai Platnick, 1977 – China
- Orthobula zhangmuensis Hu & Li, 1987 – China
References
- ↑ Simon, E. (1897). "Etudes arachnologiques. 27e Mémoire. XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae.". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 65: 465–510.
- ↑ Bosselaers, J.; Jocqué, R. (2002). "Studies in Corinnidae: cladistic analysis of 38 corinnid and liocranid genera, and transfer of Phrurolithinae". Zoologica Scripta 31 (3): 265. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00080.x.
- ↑ Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 343. doi:10.1206/821.1.
- ↑ Wheeler, W. C. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182.
- ↑ "Gen. Orthobula Simon, 1897". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/565. Retrieved 2025-10-16.
External links
- {{Inaturalist taxon}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
Wikidata ☰ Q2297321 entry
