Olbus
| Olbus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Olbus Simon, 1880[1] |
| Type species | |
| O. sparassoides (Nicolet, 1849)
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| Species | |
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Olbus is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1880 as a huntsman spider.[2] It was moved to the sac spider family in 1988,[3] then to the Corinnidae in 2001.[4]
Species[edit]
As of April 2019[update] it contains five species, all found in Chile:[1]
- Olbus eryngiophilus Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
- Olbus jaguar Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
- Olbus krypto Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
- Olbus nahuelbuta Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
- Olbus sparassoides (Nicolet, 1849) (type) – Chile
References[edit]
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Olbus Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ^ Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 34: 223–351.
- ^ Roth, V. D. (1988). "American Agelenidae and some misidentified spiders (Clubionidae, Oonopidae and Sparassidae) of E. Simon in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 10: 25–37. doi:10.5962/p.287495. S2CID 89218570.
- ^ Ramírez, M. J.; Lopardo, L.; Bonaldo, A. B. (2001). "A review of the Chilean spider genus Olbus, with notes on the relationships of the Corinnidae (Arachnida, Araneae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 31: 445.