Gnolus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Gnolus

| image = Haeckel_Arachnida.jpg

| image_caption = G. cordiformis (top center)

| authority = Simon, 1879

| type_species = G. cordiformis

| type_species_authority = (Nicolet, 1849)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 6, see text

}}

Gnolus is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1879.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1879| title=Note sur les Epeiridae de la sous-famille des Arcyinae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=55–61| volume=22| author-link=Eugène Simon}} Originally placed with the orb-weaving spiders, it was transferred to the pirate spiders in 1993,{{cite journal| last1=Platnick| first1=N. I.| last2=Shadab| first2=M. U.| year=1993| title=A review of the pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) of Chile| journal=American Museum Novitates| issue=3074| page=18| author-link=Norman I. Platnick}} but moved back to orb-weaver family in 2012.{{cite journal| last=Dimitrov| first=D.| display-authors=etal| year=2012| title=Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling| journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences| volume=279| issue=1732| pages=1341–50| doi=10.1098/rspb.2011.2011| pmid=22048955| pmc=3282380| doi-access=free}}