Xylethrus
Genus of spiders
Xylethrus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Xylethrus Simon, 1895[1] |
Type species | |
X. superbus Simon, 1895 | |
Species | |
6, see text |
Xylethrus is a genus of Central and South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains six species:[1]
- Xylethrus ameda Levi, 1996 – Brazil
- Xylethrus anomid Levi, 1996 – Peru, Brazil
- Xylethrus arawak Archer, 1965 – Mexico, Jamaica
- Xylethrus perlatus Simon, 1895 – Brazil
- Xylethrus scrupeus Simon, 1895 – Panama to Bolivia, Brazil
- Xylethrus superbus Simon, 1895 (type) – Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil
References
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Xylethrus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.
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