Ogulnius

Ogulnius is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882.[2]

Ogulnius
O. pullus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiosomatidae
Genus:	Ogulnius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882[1]
Type species
O. obtectus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882
Species
18, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains eighteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, and Panama:[1]

• Ogulnius barbandrewsi Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
• Ogulnius clarus Keyserling, 1886 – Brazil
• Ogulnius cubanus Archer, 1958 – Cuba
• Ogulnius fulvus Bryant, 1945 – Hispaniola
• Ogulnius gertschi Archer, 1953 – Panama
• Ogulnius gloriae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
• Ogulnius hapalus Zhao & Li, 2012 – China
• Ogulnius hayoti Lopez, 1994 – Martinique
• Ogulnius infumatus Simon, 1898 – St. Vincent
• Ogulnius laranka Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
• Ogulnius latus Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
• Ogulnius obscurus Keyserling, 1886 – Peru, Brazil
• Ogulnius obtectus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – Brazil, Colombia, Peru
• Ogulnius paku Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
• Ogulnius pallisteri Archer, 1953 – Peru
• Ogulnius pullus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Korea, Japan
• Ogulnius tetrabunus (Archer, 1965) – Jamaica
• Ogulnius yaginumai Brignoli, 1981 – Philippines

In synonymy:

• O. agnoscus Strand, 1918 = Ogulnius pullus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906

See also

• List of Theridiosomatidae species

References

1. "Gen. Ogulnius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1882). "On new genera and species of Araneidea". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 50 (3): 423–442.

Further reading

• Archer, A. F. (1953). "Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae)". American Museum Novitates. 1622: 1–27.
• Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422: 1–96.
• Brignoli, P. M. (1981). "Spiders from the Philippines IV. A new Ogulnius and notes on some other Oriental and Japanese Theridiosomatidae (Araneae)". Acta Arachnologica. 30: 9–19.
• 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.
• Ono, H.; Shinkai, E. (2009), "Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae", in Ono, H. (ed.), The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species