Olbus

Genus of spiders

Olbus

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Corinnidae
Genus:  | Olbus
Simon, 1880[1]
Type species
O. sparassoides

(Nicolet, 1849)

Species

5, see text

Olbus is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1880 as a huntsman spider.[2] It was moved to the sac spider family in 1988,[3] then to the Corinnidae in 2001.[4]

## Species

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As of April 2019[update] it contains five species, all found in Chile:[1]

* Olbus eryngiophilus Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
* Olbus jaguar Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
* Olbus krypto Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
* Olbus nahuelbuta Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001 – Chile
* Olbus sparassoides (Nicolet, 1849) (type) – Chile

## References

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1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Olbus Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
2. ^ Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 34: 223–351.
3. ^ Roth, V. D. (1988). "American Agelenidae and some misidentified spiders (Clubionidae, Oonopidae and Sparassidae) of E. Simon in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 10: 25–37. doi:10.5962/p.287495. S2CID 89218570.
4. ^ Ramírez, M. J.; Lopardo, L.; Bonaldo, A. B. (2001). "A review of the Chilean spider genus Olbus, with notes on the relationships of the Corinnidae (Arachnida, Araneae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 31: 445.

Taxon identifiers

Olbus|

* Wikidata: Q1924138
* Wikispecies: Olbus
* BioLib: 466843
* BOLD: 291388
* CoL: 67JR
* EoL: 113519
* GBIF: 2148854
* iNaturalist: 419637
* IRMNG: 1051984
* ITIS: 872633
* NCBI: 1956493
* Open Tree of Life: 3554477
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02222

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