Fufius

Fufius
F. lucasae, female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Cyrtaucheniidae
Genus: Fufius
Simon, 1888
Type species
F. atramentarius
Simon, 1888
Species

13, see text

Synonyms
  • Hermorhachias Mello-Leitão, 1941
  • Metriura Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2009

Fufius is a genus of Central and South American Rhytidicolidae that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1888. Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Cyrtaucheniidae in 1941 and to Rhytidicolidae in 2022.

Species

As of September 2022 it contains thirteen species:

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Fufius Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  2. ^ Bertani, R.; Fukushima, C. S.; Nagahama, R. H. (2012). "Metriura Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2009 (Araneae: Dipluridae) is a junior synonym of Fufius Simon, 1888 (Araneae: Cyrtaucheniidae)". Zoologia. 29 (5): 494. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702012000500016.
  3. ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 134.
  4. ^ Simon, E. (1888). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 203–216.
  5. ^ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941). "Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 13: 234.


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