Janula

Genus of spiders

Janula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Janula
Strand, 1932[1]
Type species
J. bicornis
(Thorell, 1881)
Species

44, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Monetoculus Wunderlich, 2008[2]

Janula is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1932.[3] It is a senior synonym of Monetoculus.[2]

Species

As of September 2022[update] it contains forty-four species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Panama, and Queensland:[1]

  • Janula aspus (Levi, 1964) – Nicaragua
  • Janula batman Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula bicornigera (Simon, 1894) – Brazil
  • Janula bicornis (Thorell, 1881) (type) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Janula bicruciata (Simon, 1895) – Brazil
  • Janula bifrons (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
  • Janula bizona Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula bruneiensis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula bubalis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula chiapensis (Levi, 1955) – Mexico, Costa Rica (Cocos Is.)
  • Janula colima (Levi, 1955) – Mexico to Panama
  • Janula crysus (Buckup & Marques, 1992) – Brazil
  • Janula cuzco (Levi, 1967) – Peru
  • Janula dominica (Levi, 1955) – Hispaniola
  • Janula erythrophthalma (Simon, 1894) – Panama, Lesser Antilles to Bolivia
  • Janula flores E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
  • Janula itaqui E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
  • Janula jimmyi (Chavari & Brescovit, 2014) – Colombia
  • Janula juarezi (Levi, 1955) – Mexico
  • Janula luteolimbata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
  • Janula lutzenbergeri E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
  • Janula malachina (Simon, 1895) – Peru, Brazil
  • Janula mamiraua E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
  • Janula manauara E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
  • Janula marginata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
  • Janula modesta (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
  • Janula moyobamba (Levi, 1964) – Peru
  • Janula nadleri (Levi, 1955) – Bahama Is., Jamaica
  • Janula nebulosa (Simon, 1895) – Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
  • Janula ocreata (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
  • Janula panamensis (Levi, 1955) – Panama
  • Janula parva (Wunderlich, 2008) – Malaysia
  • Janula picta (Simon, 1895) – Singapore
  • Janula pimenta E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
  • Janula pyrus (Levi, 1964) – Panama
  • Janula salobrensis (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil
  • Janula seguro E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
  • Janula taprobanica (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
  • Janula teresopolis (Levi, 1964) – Brazil
  • Janula triangularis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Thailand, Singapore, Brunei (Borneo)
  • Janula triocellata Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula unitus (Levi, 1964) – Cuba, Jamaica
  • Janula vaticus (Levi, 1964) – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Janula zurlus (Levi, 1964) – Venezuela

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2022). "Gen. Janula Strand, 1932". World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b Yoshida, H.; Koh, J. K. H. (2011). "Phoroncidia, Janula and a new genus Brunepisinus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Brunei". Acta Arachnologica. 60 (2): 79. doi:10.2476/asjaa.60.75.
  3. ^ Strand, E. (1932). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, III, IV". Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā. 4: 193–196.
Taxon identifiers
Janula


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