Janula

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

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| taxon = Janula

| authority = Strand, 1932

| type_species = J. bicornis

| type_species_authority = (Thorell, 1881)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 44, see text

| synonyms = *Monetoculus Wunderlich, 2008{{cite journal| last1=Yoshida| first1=H.| last2=Koh| first2=J. K. H.| year=2011| title=Phoroncidia, Janula and a new genus Brunepisinus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Brunei| journal=Acta Arachnologica| volume=60| issue=2| page=79| doi=10.2476/asjaa.60.75| doi-access=free}}

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Janula is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1932.{{cite journal| last=Strand| first=E.| year=1932| title=Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, III, IV| journal=Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā| pages=193–196| volume=4| author-link=Embrik Strand}} It is a senior synonym of Monetoculus.

Species

{{as of|2022|09}} it contains forty-four species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Panama, and Queensland:{{cite journal |last1=Gloor |first1=Daniel |last2=Nentwig |first2=Wolfgang |last3=Blick |first3=Theo |last4=Kropf |first4=Christian |year=2022 |title=Gen. Janula Strand, 1932 |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3498 |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |doi=10.24436/2 |access-date=4 September 2022 |website=World Spider Catalog Version 23.5}}

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See also

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