Faiditus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Neogene| Present}}

| image = Argyrodes.xiphias.female.2.-.tanikawa.jpg

| image_caption = Faiditus xiphias

| taxon = Faiditus

| authority = Keyserling, 1884

| type_species = F. ecaudatus

| type_species_authority = Keyserling, 1884

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 59, see text

| synonyms =

  • Bellinda Keyserling, 1884 (removed from S of Argyrodes Simon, 1784){{cite journal| last=Agnarsson| first=I.| year=2004| title=Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| volume=141| issue=4| page=478| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x| url=https://zenodo.org/record/5431156}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

File:Genus Faiditus male.jpg

Faiditus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1884.{{cite book| last=Keyserling| first=E.| year=1884| title=Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae| pages=1–222| publisher=Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 1|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.64832| author-link=Eugen von Keyserling}}

Species

{{As of|2020|05}} it contains fifty-nine species, all found in the Americas except for F. xiphias, found in Asia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Faiditus Keyserling, 1884| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-06-19| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3485| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

See also

References