Janula is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1932.[3] It is a senior synonym of Monetoculus.[2]
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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: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Janula Strand, 1932[1] |
| Type species | |
| J. bicornis (Thorell, 1881)
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Species
editAs of September 2022[update] it contains forty-four species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Panama, and Queensland:[1]
- Janula aspus (Levi, 1964) – Nicaragua
- Janula batman Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
- Janula bicornigera (Simon, 1894) – Brazil
- Janula bicornis (Thorell, 1881) (type) – Australia (Queensland)
- Janula bicruciata (Simon, 1895) – Brazil
- Janula bifrons (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
- Janula bizona Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
- Janula bruneiensis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
- Janula bubalis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
- Janula chiapensis (Levi, 1955) – Mexico, Costa Rica (Cocos Is.)
- Janula colima (Levi, 1955) – Mexico to Panama
- Janula crysus (Buckup & Marques, 1992) – Brazil
- Janula cuzco (Levi, 1967) – Peru
- Janula dominica (Levi, 1955) – Hispaniola
- Janula erythrophthalma (Simon, 1894) – Panama, Lesser Antilles to Bolivia
- Janula flores E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
- Janula itaqui E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
- Janula jimmyi (Chavari & Brescovit, 2014) – Colombia
- Janula juarezi (Levi, 1955) – Mexico
- Janula luteolimbata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
- Janula lutzenbergeri E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
- Janula malachina (Simon, 1895) – Peru, Brazil
- Janula mamiraua E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
- Janula manauara E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
- Janula marginata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
- Janula modesta (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
- Janula moyobamba (Levi, 1964) – Peru
- Janula nadleri (Levi, 1955) – Bahama Is., Jamaica
- Janula nebulosa (Simon, 1895) – Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
- Janula ocreata (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
- Janula panamensis (Levi, 1955) – Panama
- Janula parva (Wunderlich, 2008) – Malaysia
- Janula picta (Simon, 1895) – Singapore
- Janula pimenta E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
- Janula pyrus (Levi, 1964) – Panama
- Janula salobrensis (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil
- Janula seguro E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
- Janula taprobanica (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
- Janula teresopolis (Levi, 1964) – Brazil
- Janula triangularis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Thailand, Singapore, Brunei (Borneo)
- Janula triocellata Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
- Janula unitus (Levi, 1964) – Cuba, Jamaica
- Janula vaticus (Levi, 1964) – Costa Rica, Panama
- Janula zurlus (Levi, 1964) – Venezuela
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2022). "Gen. Janula Strand, 1932". World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
- ^ a b Yoshida, H.; Koh, J. K. H. (2011). "Phoroncidia, Janula and a new genus Brunepisinus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Brunei". Acta Arachnologica. 60 (2): 79. doi:10.2476/asjaa.60.75.
- ^ Strand, E. (1932). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, III, IV". Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā. 4: 193–196.
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