Coelotes

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Coelotes

| image = Coelotes_terrestris.jpg

| image_caption = Coelotes terrestris

| authority = Blackwall, 1841

| subdivision = 151, see text

| type_species = Coelotes saxatilis{{cite journal|author=ICZN |date=1979 |title=Opinion 1119. Amaurobius C.L. Koch, 1837, and Coelotes Blackwall, 1841 (Araneae): Conserved under the Plenary Powers |journal=Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=216–220 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12226823}}

| type_species_authority = Blackwall, 1833

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| synonyms =

  • Urobia{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| volume=4| page=273}}

| synonyms_ref =

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Coelotes is a genus of funnel weavers first described by John Blackwall in 1841.{{cite journal| last=Blackwall| first=J.| year=1841| title=The difference in the number of eyes with which spiders are provided proposed as the basis of their distribution into tribes; with descriptions of newly discovered species and the characters of a new family and three new genera of spiders.| journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London| pages=601–670| volume=18| doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1838.tb00210.x| url=https://zenodo.org/record/2190453}} A large number of species are found throughout Europe and Asia.

Species

{{as of|2024|12}} it contains 151 species:{{cite web| title=Gen. Coelotes Blackwall, 1841| website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2024-12-04| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/19}}

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