| Synotaxus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Synotaxidae |
| Genus: | Synotaxus Simon, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. turbinatus Simon, 1895 | |
| Species | |
| 11, see text | |
Synotaxus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synotaxidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[2] Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the Synotaxidae in 2017.[3]
Species
As of September 2019 it contains eleven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, and on Trinidad:[1]
- Synotaxus bonaldoi Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
- Synotaxus brescoviti Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
- Synotaxus ecuadorensis Exline, 1950 – Costa Rica to Ecuador
- Synotaxus itabaiana Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
- Synotaxus jaraguari Souza, Brescovit & Araujo, 2017 – Brazil
- Synotaxus leticia Exline & Levi, 1965 – Colombia
- Synotaxus longicaudatus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
- Synotaxus monoceros (Caporiacco, 1947) – Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil
- Synotaxus siolii Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
- Synotaxus turbinatus Simon, 1895 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
- Synotaxus waiwai Agnarsson, 2003 – Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Synotaxus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 96.