Retiro is a genus of South American and Central American tangled nest spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1915.[2]
| Retiro | |
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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: | Amaurobiidae |
| Genus: | Retiro Mello-Leitão, 1915[1] |
| Type species | |
| R. maculatus Mello-Leitão, 1915 | |
| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains twelve species:[1]
- Retiro crinitus (Simon, 1893) — Venezuela
- Retiro fulvipes (Simon, 1906) — Ecuador
- Retiro granadensis (Keyserling, 1878) — Colombia
- Retiro gratus (Bryant, 1948) — Hispaniola
- Retiro lanceolatus (Vellard, 1924) — Brazil
- Retiro maculatus Mello-Leitão, 1915 — Brazil
- Retiro nigronotatus Mello-Leitão, 1947 — Brazil
- Retiro plagiatus (Simon, 1893) — Venezuela
- Retiro procerulus (Simon, 1906) — Ecuador
- Retiro quitensis (Simon, 1906) — Ecuador
- Retiro rhombifer (Simon, 1906) — Ecuador
- Retiro roberti (Reimoser, 1939) — Costa Rica
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Retiro Mello-Leitão, 1915". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ^ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1915). "Alguns generos e especies novas de araneidos do Brasil". Brotéria (Ser. Zool.). 13: 129–142.