Gnolus Explained

Gnolus is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1879.^[1] Originally placed with the orb-weaving spiders, it was transferred to the pirate spiders in 1993,^[2] but moved back to orb-weaver family in 2012.^[3]

Species

it contains six species, found in Argentina and Chile:^[4]

• Gnolus angulifrons Simon, 1896 – Chile, Argentina
• Gnolus blinkeni Platnick & Shadab, 1993 – Chile, Argentina
• Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849) (type) – Chile, Argentina
• Gnolus limbatus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• Gnolus spiculator (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
• Gnolus zonulatus Tullgren, 1902 – Chile, Argentina

In synonymy:

• G. affinis Tullgren, 1902 = Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849)

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1879. Note sur les Epeiridae de la sous-famille des Arcyinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 55–61. 22. Eugène_Simon.
2. Platnick. N. I.. Shadab. M. U.. 1993. A review of the pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) of Chile. American Museum Novitates. 3074. 18. Norman_I._Platnick.
3. Dimitrov. D.. etal. 2012. Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279. 1732. 1341–50. 10.1098/rspb.2011.2011. 22048955. 3282380. free.
4. Gen. Gnolus Simon, 1879. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2024-08-18. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.