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

female O. crucifera

As of October 2025, 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, 1897India, 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, 2021Iran
  • 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, 1903Madagascar
  • 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

  1. 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. 
  2. 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. 
  3. 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. 
  4. 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. 
  5. "Gen. Orthobula Simon, 1897". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/565. Retrieved 2025-10-16. 

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