Gnolus

Gnolus is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1879.[2] Originally placed with the orb-weaving spiders, it was transferred to the pirate spiders in 1993,[3] but moved back to orb-weaver family in 2012.[4]

Gnolus
G. cordiformis (top center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Gnolus
Simon, 1879[1]
Type species
G. cordiformis
(Nicolet, 1849)
Species

6, see text

Species

As of March 2020 it contains six species, found in Argentina and Chile:[1]

  • Gnolus angulifrons Simon, 1896 – Chile, Argentina
  • Gnolus blinkeni Platnick & Shadab, 1993 – Chile, Argentina
  • Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849) (type) – Chile, Argentina
  • Gnolus limbatus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
  • Gnolus spiculator (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
  • Gnolus zonulatus Tullgren, 1902 – Chile, Argentina

In synonymy:

  • G. affinis Tullgren, 1902 = Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849)

See also
  • List of Araneidae species: G-M

References
  1. "Gen. Gnolus Simon, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  2. Simon, E. (1879). "Note sur les Epeiridae de la sous-famille des Arcyinae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 22: 55–61.
  3. Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1993). "A review of the pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) of Chile". American Museum Novitates. 3074: 18.
  4. Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2012). "Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling". Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences. 279: Suppl. 1, p. 15. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2011.


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