Orsolobus is a genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[2]

Orsolobus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Orsolobus
Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
O. singularis
(Nicolet, 1849)
Species

9, see text

Species

edit

As of June 2019 it contains nine species, found only in Argentina and Chile:[1]

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Orsolobus Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.