Josa (spider)

Josa is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1891.[4] It is a senior synonym of "Gayenella", "Haptisus", "Olbophthalmus",[2] and "Pelayo".[3]

Josa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anyphaenidae
Genus: Josa
Keyserling, 1891[1]
Type species
J. lutea (Keyserling, 1878)
Species

15, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains fifteen species:[1]

  • Josa analis (Simon, 1897) — Venezuela
  • Josa andesiana (Berland, 1913) — Ecuador
  • Josa bryantae (Caporiacco, 1955) — Venezuela
  • Josa calilegua Ramírez, 2003 — Argentina
  • Josa chazaliae (Simon, 1897) — Colombia
  • Josa gounellei (Simon, 1897) — Brazil
  • Josa keyserlingi (L. Koch, 1866) — Colombia, Brazil
  • Josa laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) — Costa Rica
  • Josa lojensis (Berland, 1913) — Ecuador
  • Josa lutea (Keyserling, 1878) — Colombia, Ecuador
  • Josa maura (Simon, 1897) — Venezuela
  • Josa nigrifrons (Simon, 1897) — Mexico to Bolivia
  • Josa personata (Simon, 1897) — Ecuador
  • Josa riveti (Berland, 1913) — Ecuador, Bolivia
  • Josa simoni (Berland, 1913) — Ecuador

References

  1. "Gen. Josa Keyserling, 1891". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. Ramírez, M. J. (2003). "The spider subfamily Amaurobioidinae (Araneae, Anyphaenidae): a phylogenetic revision at the generic level". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 277: 1–262.
  3. Brescovit, A. D. (1993). "Lepajan, um gênero novo de aranhas neotropicais e sinonímia de Pelayo Pickard-Cambridge com Josa Keyserling (Araneae, Anyphaenidae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 37: 129.
  4. Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen.

"Josa" at the Encyclopedia of Life


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