Architis Explained

Architis is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-one species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:^[2]

• Architis altamira Santos, 2007 – Brazil
• Architis amazonica (Simon, 1898) – Brazil
• Architis brasiliensis (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Brazil
• Architis capricorna Carico, 1981 – Brazil, Argentina
• Architis catuaba Santos, 2008 – Brazil, Peru
• Architis colombo Santos, 2007 – Brazil
• Architis comaina Santos, 2007 – Peru
• Architis cymatilis Carico, 1981 – Trinidad, Colombia to Brazil
• Architis dianasilvae Santos, 2007 – Peru
• Architis erwini Santos, 2007 – Ecuador
• Architis fritzmuelleri Santos, 2007 – Brazil
• Architis gracilis Santos, 2008 – Brazil
• Architis helveola (Simon, 1898) – Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil
• Architis ikuruwa Carico, 1981 – Guyana, Suriname, Peru, Bolivia
• Architis maturaca Santos, 2007 – Brazil
• Architis neblina Santos & Nogueira, 2008 – Brazil
• Architis robusta Carico, 1981 – Panama, Brazil
• Architis spinipes (Taczanowski, 1874) – Panama, Trinidad to Argentina
• Architis tenuipes (Simon, 1898) – Brazil
• Architis tenuis Simon, 1898 (type) – Panama to Brazil
• Architis turvo Santos, 2007 – Brazil

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1898. Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 5–34. 42. Eugène Simon.
2. Gen. Architis Simon, 1898. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-05. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.