Ogulnius Explained

Ogulnius is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882.^[1]

Species

it contains eighteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, and Panama:^[2]

• Ogulnius barbandrewsi Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
• Ogulnius clarus Keyserling, 1886 – Brazil
• Ogulnius cubanus Archer, 1958 – Cuba
• Ogulnius fulvus Bryant, 1945 – Hispaniola
• Ogulnius gertschi Archer, 1953 – Panama
• Ogulnius gloriae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
• Ogulnius hapalus Zhao & Li, 2012 – China
• Ogulnius hayoti Lopez, 1994 – Martinique
• Ogulnius infumatus Simon, 1898 – St. Vincent
• Ogulnius laranka Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
• Ogulnius latus Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
• Ogulnius obscurus Keyserling, 1886 – Peru, Brazil
• Ogulnius obtectus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – Brazil, Colombia, Peru
• Ogulnius paku Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
• Ogulnius pallisteri Archer, 1953 – Peru
• Ogulnius pullus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Korea, Japan
• Ogulnius tetrabunus (Archer, 1965) – Jamaica
• Ogulnius yaginumai Brignoli, 1981 – Philippines

In synonymy:

• O. agnoscus Strand, 1918 = Ogulnius pullus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906

See also

• List of Theridiosomatidae species

Further reading

• Archer. A. F.. 1953. Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). American Museum Novitates. 1–27. 1622.
• Coddington. J. A.. 1986. The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1–96. 422. 422. 10.5479/si.00810282.422.
• Brignoli. P. M.. 1981. Spiders from the Philippines IV. A new Ogulnius and notes on some other Oriental and Japanese Theridiosomatidae (Araneae). Acta Arachnologica. 9–19. 30. 10.2476/asjaa.30.9. free.
• Dupérré. N.. Tapia. E.. 2017. On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species. Zootaxa. 375–399. 4341. 3. 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3. 29245661.

Notes and References

1. Pickard-Cambridge. O.. 1882. On new genera and species of Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 423–442. 50. 3. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x. 2027/coo.31924018443543. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.
2. Gen. Ogulnius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-18. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.