Baalzebub (spider)
Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2] Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves. [3]
| Baalzebub | |
|---|---|
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 | |
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[4]
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References
- "Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422: 1–96.
- Prete, Pedro; Cizaukas, Igor; Brescovit, Antonio. "A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment.
- Vendée amber at Fossilworks.org
External links
"Baalzebub" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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