Simonestus
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Simonestus
| type_species = S. validus
| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1898)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 6, see text
}}
Simonestus is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by A. B. Bonaldo in 2000.{{cite journal| last=Bonaldo| first=A. B.| year=2000| title=Taxonomia da subfamília Corinninae (Araneae, Corinnidae) nas regiões Neotropica e Neárctica.| journal=Iheringia, Série Zoologia| pages=3–148| volume=89| issue=89| doi=10.1590/S0073-47212000000200001| doi-access=free}}
Species
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains six species in the Americas:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Simonestus Bonaldo, 2000| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-22| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/593| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}
- Simonestus occidentalis (Schenkel, 1953) – Venezuela
- Simonestus pseudobulbulus (Caporiacco, 1938) – Guatemala
- Simonestus robustus (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
- Simonestus semiluna (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico, Guatemala
- Simonestus separatus (Schmidt, 1971) – Guatemala to Peru
- Simonestus validus (Simon, 1898) (type) – Venezuela
References
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Category:Spiders of North America
Category:Spiders of South America
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