Retiro (spider)

Genus of spiders

Retiro

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Amaurobiidae
Genus:  | Retiro
Mello-Leitão, 1915[1]
Type species
R. maculatus Mello-Leitão, 1915

Species

12, see text

Retiro is a genus of South American and Central American tangled nest spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1915.[2]

## Species

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As of April 2019[update] it contains twelve species:[1]

* Retiro crinitus (Simon, 1893) — Venezuela
* Retiro fulvipes (Simon, 1906) — Ecuador
* Retiro granadensis (Keyserling, 1878) — Colombia
* Retiro gratus (Bryant, 1948) — Hispaniola
* Retiro lanceolatus (Vellard, 1924) — Brazil
* Retiro maculatus Mello-Leitão, 1915 — Brazil
* Retiro nigronotatus Mello-Leitão, 1947 — Brazil
* Retiro plagiatus (Simon, 1893) — Venezuela
* Retiro procerulus (Simon, 1906) — Ecuador
* Retiro quitensis (Simon, 1906) — Ecuador
* Retiro rhombifer (Simon, 1906) — Ecuador
* Retiro roberti (Reimoser, 1939) — Costa Rica

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Gen. Retiro Mello-Leitão, 1915". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
2. ^ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1915). "Alguns generos e especies novas de araneidos do Brasil". Brotéria (Ser. Zool.). 13: 129–142.

Taxon identifiers

Retiro|

* Wikidata: Q3428112
* Wikispecies: Retiro
* ADW: Retiro
* BioLib: 1025269
* CoL: 77WG
* EoL: 113344
* GBIF: 2141898
* iNaturalist: 418890
* IRMNG: 1239830
* ITIS: 872939
* Open Tree of Life: 3559793
* uBio: 4327916
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02041

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