Baalzebub (spider)
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Recent|earliest=Turonian}}
| image = Baalzebub baubo.jpg
| image_caption = Baalzebub
| taxon = Baalzebub
| type_species = B. baubo Coddington, 1986
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = see text
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Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.{{cite journal| last=Coddington| first=J. A.| year=1986| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae.| journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology| pages=1–96| volume=422| issue=422| doi=10.5479/si.00810282.422}} Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves. {{cite journal | last1 = Prete | first1 = Pedro | last2 =Cizaukas | first2 = Igor | last3 = Brescovit | first3 = Antonio | title = A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves | journal = Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303511779}}
Species
{{as of|2020|03}} it contains seven extant and one fossil species:{{cite web| title=Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-04-09| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3564}}
- B. acutum Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
- B. albonotatus (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
- B. baubo Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
- B. brauni (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
- B. nemesis Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
- B. rastrarius Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
- B. youyiensis Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
- ?†B. mesozoicum {{small|Penney 2014}} - Vendée amber, France, Turonian{{Cite journal|date=2014-12-01|title=A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France|journal=Paleontological Contributions|doi=10.17161/pc.1808.15982|issn=1946-0279|doi-access=free|hdl=1808/15982|hdl-access=free}} later considered to be stem-Theridiosomatidae{{Cite journal|last1=Magalhaes|first1=Ivan L. F.|last2=Azevedo|first2=Guilherme H. F.|last3=Michalik|first3=Peter|last4=Ramírez|first4=Martín J.|date=February 2020|title=The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/brv.12559|journal=Biological Reviews|language=en|volume=95|issue=1|pages=184–217|doi=10.1111/brv.12559|pmid=31713947|s2cid=207937170|issn=1464-7931}}
References
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External links
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Category:Spiders of Central America
Category:Spiders of South America
Category:Spiders of the Caribbean
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