Vindullus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Vindullus

| authority = Simon, 1880

| type_species = V. gracilipes

| type_species_authority = (Taczanowski, 1872)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 8, see text

}}

Vindullus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.{{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| author-link=Eugène Simon}} Though often considered a synonym of Olios, it has been validated as its own genus.{{cite journal| last1=Rheims| first1=C. A.| last2=Jäger| first2=P.| year=2008| title=Revision of the Neotropical huntsman spider genus Vindullus Simon (Araneae, Sparassidae)| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=36| issue=2| page=221| doi=10.1636/CA07-90.1| s2cid=85985786| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229069| author-link2=Peter Jäger}}{{cite journal| last=Caporiacco| first=L. di| year=1955| title=Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae| journal=Acta Biologica Venezuelica| volume=1| pages=265–448| author-link=Lodovico di Caporiacco}}

Species

{{as of|2019|09}} it contains eight species, found in South America and Guatemala:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Vindullus Simon, 1880| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-10-13| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3171| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

See also

References