Chthonos

Chthonos is a genus of South American ray spiders that was created by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986 because the previous name was preoccupied.[2] Originally placed with the Orb-weaver_spiders under the name Tecmessa,[3] it was transferred to the ray spiders in 1986.[2]

Chthonos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiosomatidae
Genus: Chthonos
Coddington, 1986[1]
Type species
C. pectorosa
Species

5, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains five species, found in Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador:[1]

  • Chthonos kuyllur Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
  • Chthonos pectorosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882) (type) – Brazil
  • Chthonos peruana (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
  • Chthonos quinquemucronata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil
  • Chthonos tuberosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil

Formerly included:

  • C. tetrabuna (Archer, 1965) (Transferred to Ogulnius)
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See also

References
  1. "Gen. Chthonos Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  2. Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422: 1–96.
  3. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1882). "On new genera and species of Araneidea". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 50 (3): 434. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x.

Further reading
  • Keyserling, E. (1886). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. pp. 1–295. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.
  • Dupérré, N.; Tapia, E. (2017). "On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species". Zootaxa. 4341 (3): 375–399.
  • Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  • Simon, E. (1893). "Études arachnologiques. 25e Mémoire. XL. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 62: 299–330.


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