Biology:Vindullus

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Vindullus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Vindullus
Simon, 1880[1]
Type species
V. gracilipes
(Taczanowski, 1872)
Species

8, see text

Vindullus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.[2] Though often considered a synonym of Olios, it has been validated as its own genus.[3][4]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains eight species, found in South America and Guatemala:[1]

  • Vindullus angulatus Rheims & Jäger, 2008 – Peru, Ecuador, Brazil
  • Vindullus concavus Rheims & Jäger, 2008 – Brazil
  • Vindullus fugiens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890) – Guatemala
  • Vindullus gibbosus Rheims & Jäger, 2008 – Peru, Suriname
  • Vindullus gracilipes (Taczanowski, 1872) (type) – French Guiana, Brazil
  • Vindullus guatemalensis (Keyserling, 1887) – Guatemala
  • Vindullus kratochvili Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
  • Vindullus undulatus Rheims & Jäger, 2008 – Colombia, Venezuela

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Vindullus Simon, 1880. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3171. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 34: 223–351. 
  3. Rheims, C. A.; Jäger, P. (2008). "Revision of the Neotropical huntsman spider genus Vindullus Simon (Araneae, Sparassidae)". Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 221. doi:10.1636/CA07-90.1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229069. 
  4. Caporiacco, L. di (1955). "Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae". Acta Biologica Venezuelica 1: 265–448. 

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