Fufius Explained

Fufius is a genus of Central and South American Rhytidicolidae that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.^[1] Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Cyrtaucheniidae in 1941 and to Rhytidicolidae in 2022.^[2]

Species

it contains thirteen species:^[3]

• Fufius albovittatus (Simon, 1891) – Brazil
• Fufius annulipes (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Colombia
• Fufius antillensis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Trinidad
• Fufius atramentarius Simon, 1888 (type) – Central America
• Fufius auricomus (Simon, 1891) – Brazil
• Fufius candango Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
• Fufius ecuadorensis (Simon, 1892) – Ecuador
• Fufius funebris Vellard, 1924 – Brazil
• Fufius jalapensis Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
• Fufius lanicius (Simon, 1892) – Bolivia
• Fufius lucasae Guadanucci & Indicatti, 2004 – Brazil
• Fufius minusculus Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
• Fufius striatipes (Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2009) – Brazil

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1888. Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 203–216. 8. 6.
2. Mello-Leitão. C. F. de. 1941. Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 13. 234.
3. Gen. Fufius Simon, 1888. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-31. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.