Biology:Xylethrus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Xylethrus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Xylethrus
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
X. superbus
Simon, 1895
Species

6, see text

Xylethrus is a genus of Central and South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains six species:[1]

  • Xylethrus ameda Levi, 1996 – Brazil
  • Xylethrus anomid Levi, 1996 – Peru, Brazil
  • Xylethrus arawak Archer, 1965 – Mexico, Jamaica
  • Xylethrus perlatus Simon, 1895 – Brazil
  • Xylethrus scrupeus Simon, 1895 – Panama to Bolivia, Brazil
  • Xylethrus superbus Simon, 1895 (type) – Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Xylethrus Simon, 1895. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/422. Retrieved 2019-05-15. 
  2. Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae.". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64: 131–160. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3004484 entry