Orsonwelles torosus

Orsonwelles torosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Orsonwelles
Species: O. torosus
Binomial name
Orsonwelles torosus
(Simon, 1900)
Original range in the Hawaiian Islands
Synonyms
  • Labulla torosa Simon, 1900

Orsonwelles torosus is a species of linyphiid spider endemic to Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. It was described in 1900 by the French naturalist Eugène Simon based on a specimen collected in the 1890s, but has not been collected since, and is presumed extinct.

References

  • Hormiga, Gustavo (2002). "Orsonwelles, a new genus of giant linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Hawaiian Islands" (PDF). Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 369–448.


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