Xylethrus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Xylethrus

| authority = Simon, 1895

| type_species = X. superbus

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1895

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 6, see text

}}

Xylethrus is a genus of Central and South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1895| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae.| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=131–160| volume=64}}

Species

{{as of|2019|04}} it contains six species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Xylethrus Simon, 1895| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-05-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/422| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

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