Biology:Fufius

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Fufius
Fufius lucasae, female, Itapecerica da Serra.jpg
F. lucasae, female
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Cyrtaucheniidae
Genus: Fufius
Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
F. atramentarius
Simon, 1888
Species

13, see text

Synonyms[1][2]
  • Hermorhachias Mello-Leitão, 1941[3]
  • Metriura Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2009

Fufius is a genus of Central and South American Rhytidicolidae that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.[4] Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Cyrtaucheniidae in 1941 and to Rhytidicolidae in 2022.[5]

Species

(As of September 2022) it contains thirteen species:[1]

  • Fufius albovittatus (Simon, 1891) – Brazil
  • Fufius annulipes (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Colombia
  • Fufius antillensis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Trinidad
  • Fufius atramentarius Simon, 1888 (type) – Central America
  • Fufius auricomus (Simon, 1891) – Brazil
  • Fufius candango Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
  • Fufius ecuadorensis (Simon, 1892) – Ecuador
  • Fufius funebris Vellard, 1924 – Brazil
  • Fufius jalapensis Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
  • Fufius lanicius (Simon, 1892) – Bolivia
  • Fufius lucasae Guadanucci & Indicatti, 2004 – Brazil
  • Fufius minusculus Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
  • Fufius striatipes (Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2009) – Brazil

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Fufius Simon, 1888. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/702. 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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