Baalzebub (spider)
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Baalzebub | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Theridiosomatidae |
Genus: | Baalzebub Coddington 1986[1] |
Type species | |
Coddington, 1986 | |
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Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2] Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves. [3]
Species[]
As of March 2020 it contains seven extant and one fossil species:[1]
- Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
- (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
- Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
- (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
- Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
- Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
- Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
- ?† Penney 2014 - , France, Turonian[4] later considered to be stem-Theridiosomatidae[5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422 (422): 1–96. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.422.
- ^ Prete, Pedro; Cizaukas, Igor; Brescovit, Antonio. "A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment.
- ^ "A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France". Paleontological Contributions. 2014-12-01. doi:10.17161/pc.1808.15982. ISSN 1946-0279.
- ^ Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Azevedo, Guilherme H. F.; Michalik, Peter; Ramírez, Martín J. (February 2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic". Biological Reviews. 95 (1): 184–217. doi:10.1111/brv.12559. ISSN 1464-7931. PMID 31713947. S2CID 207937170.
External links[]
"Baalzebub" at the Encyclopedia of Life
Categories:
- Araneomorphae genera
- Theridiosomatidae
- Spiders of Asia
- Spiders of Central America
- Spiders of South America
- Spiders of the Caribbean
- Spiders of Australia
- Extant Turonian first appearances
- Araneomorphae stubs