Olbus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Olbus

| authority = Simon, 1880

| type_species = O. sparassoides

| type_species_authority = (Nicolet, 1849)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 5, see text

}}

Olbus is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1880 as a huntsman spider.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1880| title=Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides).| journal=Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux| pages=223–351| volume=34}} It was moved to the sac spider family in 1988,{{cite journal| last=Roth| first=V. D.| year=1988| title=American Agelenidae and some misidentified spiders (Clubionidae, Oonopidae and Sparassidae) of E. Simon in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle| journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris| volume=10| pages=25–37| doi=10.5962/p.287495| s2cid=89218570| doi-access=free}} then to the Corinnidae in 2001.{{cite journal| last1=Ramírez| first1=M. J.| last2=Lopardo| first2=L.| last3=Bonaldo| first3=A. B.| year=2001| title=A review of the Chilean spider genus Olbus, with notes on the relationships of the Corinnidae (Arachnida, Araneae)| journal=Insect Systematics & Evolution| volume=31| page=445}}