Fufius

Fufius is a genus of Central and South American wafer trapdoor spiders 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.[5]

Fufius
F. lucasae, female
Scientific classification
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]

Species

As of May 2019 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
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References
  1. "Gen. Fufius Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. 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: 494.
  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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