Corasoides Explained

Corasoides is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1929.^[1] Originally placed with the Agelenidae, it was moved to the Stiphidiidae in 1973,^[2] and to the Desidae after a 2017 genetic study.^[3]

Species

it contains ten species, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea:^[4]

• Corasoides angusi Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides australis Butler, 1929 (type) – Australia
• Corasoides cowanae Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides motumae Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Corasoides mouldsi Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
• Corasoides nebula Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides nimbus Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides occidentalis Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Corasoides stellaris Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides terania Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

See also

• List of Desidae species

Notes and References

1. Butler. L. S. G.. 1929. Studies in Victorian spiders. No. 1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 41–52. 42. Arthur_Gardiner_Butler.
2. Forster. R. R.. Wilton. C. L.. 1973. The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV. Otago Museum Bulletin. 4. 128. Raymond_Robert_Forster.
3. Wheeler. W. C.. etal. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33. 6. 606. 10.1111/cla.12182. 34724759. 35535038.
4. Gen. Corasoides Butler, 1929. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.