Baalzebub (spider)

Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2]

Baalzebub
Temporal range: Turonian-present
93–0 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiosomatidae
Genus: Baalzebub
Coddington 1986[1]
Type species
B. baubo Coddington, 1986
Species

see text

Species

As of March 2020 it contains seven extant and one fossil species:[1]

  • B. acutum Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
  • B. albonotatus (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
  • B. baubo Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
  • B. brauni (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
  • B. nemesis Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
  • B. rastrarius Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
  • B. youyiensis Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
  • B. mesozoicum Coddington 1986 - Turonian Vendée amber, France[3]

References

  1. "Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  2. Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422: 1–96.
  3. Vendée amber at Fossilworks.org

"Baalzebub" at the Encyclopedia of Life

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