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Olbus

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Olbus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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)
Species

5, see text

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

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As of April 2019 it contains five species, all found in Chile:[1]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 34: 223–351.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.