Xyphinus Explained

Xyphinus is a genus of goblin spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.

Species

it contains twenty species, found only in Asia, India, and Australia:^[1]

• Xyphinus abanghamidi Deeleman-Reinhold, 1987 – Borneo
• Xyphinus acutus Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Borneo
• Xyphinus baehrae Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – India to Australia
• Xyphinus deelemanae Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Borneo
• Xyphinus distortus Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Thailand, Malaysia
• Xyphinus gibber Deeleman-Reinhold, 1987 – Borneo
• Xyphinus holgeri Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia (Borneo), Brunei
• Xyphinus hwangi Tong & Li, 2014 – Taiwan
• Xyphinus hystrix Simon, 1893 (type) – Malaysia, Singapore
• Xyphinus infaustus Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Xyphinus karschi (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan
• Xyphinus krabi Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Thailand
• Xyphinus lemniscatus Deeleman-Reinhold, 1987 – Borneo
• Xyphinus montanus Deeleman-Reinhold, 1987 – Borneo
• Xyphinus pachara Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Malaysia
• Xyphinus pakse Tong & Li, 2013 – Laos
• Xyphinus rogerfedereri Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Malaysia, Thailand
• Xyphinus sabal Kranz-Baltensperger, 2014 – Borneo
• Xyphinus xanthus Deeleman-Reinhold, 1987 – Borneo
• Xyphinus xelo Deeleman-Reinhold, 1987 – Malaysia

See also

• List of Oonopidae species

Notes and References

1. Gen. Xyphinus Simon, 1893. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-03. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.