Biology:Gnolus
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Gnolus | |
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| G. cordiformis (top center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Gnolus Simon, 1879[1] |
| Type species | |
| G. cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849)
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| Species | |
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6, see text | |
Gnolus is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1879.[2] Originally placed with the orb-weaving spiders, it was transferred to the pirate spiders in 1993,[3] but moved back to orb-weaver family in 2012.[4]
Species
(As of March 2020) it contains six species, found in Argentina and Chile :[1]
- Gnolus angulifrons Simon, 1896 – Chile , Argentina
- Gnolus blinkeni Platnick & Shadab, 1993 – Chile, Argentina
- Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849) (type) – Chile, Argentina
- Gnolus limbatus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
- Gnolus spiculator (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
- Gnolus zonulatus Tullgren, 1902 – Chile, Argentina
In synonymy:
- G. affinis Tullgren, 1902 = Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849)
See also
- List of Araneidae species: G-M
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). Gen. Gnolus Simon, 1879. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1941. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1879). "Note sur les Epeiridae de la sous-famille des Arcyinae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22: 55–61.
- ↑ Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1993). "A review of the pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) of Chile". American Museum Novitates 3074: 18.
- ↑ Dimitrov, D. (2012). "Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1732): 1341–50. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2011. PMID 22048955.
Wikidata ☰ Q5508736 entry
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