Wulfila (spider) explained

Wulfila is a genus of ghost spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1895.^[1] They are easily recognized by their pale white elongated legs.^[2]

Species

it contains forty-three species:^[3]

• Wulfila albens (Hentz, 1847) — USA
• Wulfila albus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) — Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Wulfila arraijanicus Chickering, 1940 — Panama
• Wulfila bryantae Platnick, 1974 — USA (Southern Florida), Mexico
• Wulfila coamoanus Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
• Wulfila diversus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 — Mexico
• Wulfila fasciculus (Bryant, 1948) — Hispaniola
• Wulfila fragilis Chickering, 1937 — Panama
• Wulfila fragilis (Bryant, 1948) — Hispaniola
• Wulfila gracilipes (Banks, 1903) — Hispaniola
• Wulfila immaculatus Banks, 1914 — USA (Southern Arizona and New Mexico), Cuba, Puerto Rico
• Wulfila immaculellus (Gertsch, 1933) — USA, Mexico
• Wulfila inconspicuus Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
• Wulfila innoxius Chickering, 1940 — Panama
• Wulfila inornatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) — Mexico
• Wulfila isolatus Bryant, 1942 — Puerto Rico
• Wulfila longidens Mello-Leitão, 1948 — Guyana
• Wulfila longipes (Bryant, 1940) — Cuba
• Wulfila macer (Simon, 1898) — St. Vincent
• Wulfila macropalpus Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
• Wulfila maculatus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
• Wulfila mandibulatus (Petrunkevitch, 1925) — Panama
• Wulfila modestus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
• Wulfila pallidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 — Mexico
• Wulfila parvulus (Banks, 1898) — Mexico
• Wulfila pavidus (Bryant, 1948) — Mexico
• Wulfila pellucidus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
• Wulfila pretiosus Banks, 1914 — Cuba
• Wulfila proximus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 — Mexico
• Wulfila pulverulentus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
• Wulfila saltabundus (Hentz, 1847) — Eastern USA, southeastern Canada
• Wulfila sanguineus Franganillo, 1931 — Cuba
• Wulfila scopulatus Simon, 1897 — America
• Wulfila spatulatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 — Guatemala
• Wulfila spinosus Chickering, 1937 — Panama
• Wulfila sublestus Chickering, 1940 — Panama
• Wulfila tantillus Chickering, 1940 — Southern Texas to Panama
• Wulfila tauricorneus Franganillo, 1935 — Cuba
• Wulfila tenuissimus Simon, 1896 — Jamaica
• Wulfila tinctus Franganillo, 1930 — Cuba
• Wulfila tropicus Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
• Wulfila ventralis Banks, 1906 — Bahama Is.
• Wulfila wunda Platnick, 1974 — USA (Southern Florida), Cuba, Puerto Rico (Mona Is.)

Further reading

• Book: Bradley . Richard A.. 2012. Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press.
• Book: Ubick . Darrell. 2005. Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society.
• Dean . D.A.. 2016. Catalogue of Texas spiders. ZooKeys. 570. 10.3897/zookeys.570.6095. free . 27103878 . 4829797 . 1–703.

Notes and References

1. Book: Pickard-Cambridge, O.. 1895. Arachnida. Araneida..
2. Platnick. Norman I.. 1974. The spider family Anyphaenidae in America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 146. 4. 205–266.
3. Web site: Gen. Wulfila O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895. World Spider Catalog. 2019-04-02. Natural History Museum Bern.