Orthobula Explained

Orthobula is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a member of Liocranidae.^[1] It was transferred to Corinnidae in 2002,^[2] to Phrurolithidae in 2014,^[3] and to Trachelidae in 2017.^[4]

Species

it contains twenty species:^[5]

• Orthobula bilobata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is.)
• Orthobula calceata Simon, 1897 – Sierra Leone
• Orthobula charitonovi (Mikhailov, 1986) – Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia
• Orthobula chayuensis Yang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China
• Orthobula crucifera Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – China, Korea, Japan
• Orthobula impressa Simon, 1897 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Reunion
• Orthobula mikhailovi Marusik, 2021 – Iran
• Orthobula milloti Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Orthobula puncta Yang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China
• Orthobula pura Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Orthobula qinghaiensis Hu, 2001 – China
• Orthobula quadrinotata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Orthobula radiata Simon, 1897 – South Africa
• Orthobula sicca Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
• Orthobula spiniformis Tso, Zhu, Zhang & Zhang, 2005 – Taiwan
• Orthobula sudamericana Piñanez & Munévar, 2022 – Paraguay, Argentina
• Orthobula tibenensis Hu, 2001 – China
• Orthobula trinotata Simon, 1896 – Philippines
• Orthobula yaginumai Platnick, 1977 – China
• Orthobula zhangmuensis Hu & Li, 1987 – China

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1897. Etudes arachnologiques. 27e Mémoire. XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 465–510. 65.
2. Bosselaers. J.. Jocqué. R.. 2002. Studies in Corinnidae: cladistic analysis of 38 corinnid and liocranid genera, and transfer of Phrurolithinae. Zoologica Scripta. 31. 3. 265. 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00080.x. 83947168.
3. Ramírez. M. J.. 2014. The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390. 343. 10.1206/821.1. 11336/18066. 86146467. free.
4. 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. 609. 10.1111/cla.12182. 35535038.
5. Gloor . Daniel . Nentwig . Wolfgang . Blick . Theo . Kropf . Christian . 2022 . Gen. Orthobula Simon, 1897 . Natural History Museum Bern . 10.24436/2 . 31 March 2022 . World Spider Catalog Version 23.0.