Nyssus Explained

Nyssus is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805.^[1]

Species

it contains fifteen species:^[2]

• Nyssus albopunctatus (Hogg, 1896) — Australia (Northern Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania), New Zealand
• Nyssus avidus (Thorell, 1881) — Australia (Queensland)
• Nyssus coloripes Walckenaer, 1805 — Australia (mainland, Tasmania). Introduced to New Zealand
• Nyssus emu Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
• Nyssus insularis (L. Koch, 1873) — Fiji, Solomon Is.
• Nyssus jaredwardeni Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
• Nyssus jonraveni Raven, 2015 — Australia (South Australia, Queensland)
• Nyssus loureedi Raven, 2015 — Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
• Nyssus luteofinis Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
• Nyssus paradoxus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
• Nyssus pseudomaculatus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Nyssus robertsi Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
• Nyssus semifuscus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
• Nyssus wendyae Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
• Nyssus yuggera Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

Notes and References

1. Book: Walckenaer, C. A.. 1805. Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions.
2. Web site: Gen. Nyssus Walckenaer, 1805. World Spider Catalog. 2019-03-30. Natural History Museum Bern.