Chthonos
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Chthonos
| authority = Coddington, 1986
| type_species = C. pectorosa
| type_species_authority = (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 5, see text
}}
Chthonos is a genus of South American ray spiders that was created by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986 because the previous name was preoccupied.{{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| author-link=Jonathan A. Coddington}} Originally placed with the Orb-weaver_spiders under the name Tecmessa,{{cite journal| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1882| title=On new genera and species of Araneidea| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| volume=50| issue=3| page=434| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x| author-link=Octavius Pickard-Cambridge| hdl=2027/coo.31924018443543| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/67444| hdl-access=free}} it was transferred to the ray spiders in 1986.
Species
{{as of|2020|06}} it contains five species, found in Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Chthonos Coddington, 1986| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-18| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3566| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}
- Chthonos kuyllur Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
- Chthonos pectorosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882) (type) – Brazil
- Chthonos peruana (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
- Chthonos quinquemucronata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil
- Chthonos tuberosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil
Formerly included:
- C. tetrabuna (Archer, 1965) (Transferred to Ogulnius)
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book| last=Keyserling| first=E.| year=1886| title=Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae| pages=1–295| publisher=Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.64832}}
- {{cite journal| last1=Dupérré| first1=N.| last2=Tapia| first2=E.| year=2017| title=On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species| journal=Zootaxa| pages=375–399| volume=4341| issue=3| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3| pmid=29245661}}
- {{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1895| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | location=Paris| lang=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973}}
- {{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1893| title=Études arachnologiques. 25e Mémoire. XL. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=299–330| volume=62}}
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Category:Spiders of South America
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