Wulfila is a genus of ghost spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1895.[3] They are easily recognized by their pale white elongated legs.[2]
| Wulfila Temporal range:
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| W. saltabundus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Anyphaenidae |
| Genus: | Wulfila O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| W. pallidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 | |
| Species | |
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43, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains forty-three species:[1]
- Wulfila albens (Hentz, 1847) — USA
- Wulfila albus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) — Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
- Wulfila arraijanicus Chickering, 1940 — Panama
- Wulfila bryantae Platnick, 1974 — USA (Southern Florida), Mexico
- Wulfila coamoanus Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
- Wulfila diversus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 — Mexico
- Wulfila fasciculus (Bryant, 1948) — Hispaniola
- Wulfila fragilis Chickering, 1937 — Panama
- Wulfila fragilis (Bryant, 1948) — Hispaniola
- Wulfila gracilipes (Banks, 1903) — Hispaniola
- Wulfila immaculatus Banks, 1914 — USA (Southern Arizona and New Mexico), Cuba, Puerto Rico
- Wulfila immaculellus (Gertsch, 1933) — USA, Mexico
- Wulfila inconspicuus Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
- Wulfila innoxius Chickering, 1940 — Panama
- Wulfila inornatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) — Mexico
- Wulfila isolatus Bryant, 1942 — Puerto Rico
- Wulfila longidens Mello-Leitão, 1948 — Guyana
- Wulfila longipes (Bryant, 1940) — Cuba
- Wulfila macer (Simon, 1898) — St. Vincent
- Wulfila macropalpus Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
- Wulfila maculatus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
- Wulfila mandibulatus (Petrunkevitch, 1925) — Panama
- Wulfila modestus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
- Wulfila pallidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 — Mexico
- Wulfila parvulus (Banks, 1898) — Mexico
- Wulfila pavidus (Bryant, 1948) — Mexico
- Wulfila pellucidus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
- Wulfila pretiosus Banks, 1914 — Cuba
- Wulfila proximus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 — Mexico
- Wulfila pulverulentus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
- Wulfila saltabundus (Hentz, 1847) — Eastern USA, southeastern Canada
- Wulfila sanguineus Franganillo, 1931 — Cuba
- Wulfila scopulatus Simon, 1897 — America
- Wulfila spatulatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 — Guatemala
- Wulfila spinosus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
- Wulfila sublestus Chickering, 1940 — Panama
- Wulfila tantillus Chickering, 1940 — Southern Texas to Panama
- Wulfila tauricorneus Franganillo, 1935 — Cuba
- Wulfila tenuissimus Simon, 1896 — Jamaica
- Wulfila tinctus Franganillo, 1930 — Cuba
- Wulfila tropicus Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
- Wulfila ventralis Banks, 1906 — Bahama Is.
- Wulfila wunda Platnick, 1974 — USA (Southern Florida), Cuba, Puerto Rico (Mona Is.)
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Wulfila O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
- ^ a b c Platnick, Norman I. (1974). "The spider family Anyphaenidae in America north of Mexico". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 146 (4): 205–266.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1895). Arachnida. Araneida.
Further reading
edit- Bradley, Richard A. (2012). Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press.
- Ubick, Darrell (2005). Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society.
- Dean, D.A. (2016). "Catalogue of Texas spiders". ZooKeys (570): 1–703. doi:10.3897/zookeys.570.6095. PMC 4829797. PMID 27103878.
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