Biology:Nilus (spider)
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Short description: Genus of spiders
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| N. curtus | |
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| N. albocinctus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pisauridae |
| Genus: | Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876[1] |
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| N. curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876
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Nilus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.[3]
Species
(As of June 2019) it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and India :[1]
- Nilus albocinctus (Doleschall, 1859) – India to Philippines
- Nilus curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) – Africa
- Nilus decorata (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India
- Nilus esimoni (Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar
- Nilus jayakari (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman
- Nilus kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Nilus leoninus (Strand, 1916) – Madagascar
- Nilus majungensis (Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar
- Nilus margaritatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, South Africa
- Nilus massajae (Pavesi, 1883) – Africa
- Nilus paralbocinctus (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos
- Nilus phipsoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – India to China, Indonesia
- Nilus pictus (Simon, 1898) – West, Central Africa
- Nilus pseudoalbocinctus (Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) – India
- Nilus pseudojuvenilis (Sierwald, 1987) – Mozambique
- Nilus radiatolineatus (Strand, 1906) – Africa
- Nilus rossi (Pocock, 1902) – Central, South Africa
- Nilus rubromaculatus (Thorell, 1899) – West, Central Africa
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2410. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ↑ Jäger, P. (2011). "Revision of the spider genera Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge 1876, Sphedanus Thorell 1877 and Dendrolycosa Doleschall 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae)". Zootaxa 3046: 4. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3046.1.1.
- ↑ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876). "Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44 (3): 541–630. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02595.x. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/67830.
Wikidata ☰ Q2715825 entry
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