Fufius
| Fufius | |
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| F. lucasae, female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
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| Species | |
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13, see text | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Fufius is a genus of Central and South American Rhytidicolidae 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 and to Rhytidicolidae in 2022.[5]
Species[edit]
As of September 2022[update] 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
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Gen. Fufius Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ 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 (5): 494. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702012000500016.
- ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 134.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941). "Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 13: 234.