Orthobula
| Orthobula | |
|---|---|
| Australian species | |
| O. radiata from Zimbabwe | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Trachelidae |
| Genus: | Orthobula Simon, 1897[1] |
| Type species | |
| O. impressa Simon, 1897
| |
| Species | |
|
25, see text | |
Orthobula is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a member of Liocranidae.[2] It was transferred to Corinnidae in 2002,[3] to Phrurolithidae in 2014,[4] and to Trachelidae in 2017.[5]
Species
As of October 2025, this genus includes 25 species:[1]
- Orthobula aethiopica Haddad, Jin & Platnick, 2022 – Ethiopia
- Orthobula arca Haddad, Jin & Platnick, 2022 – South Africa
- Orthobula bilobata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is.)
- Orthobula calceata Simon, 1897 – Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo
- 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 – India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Réunion (type species)
- Orthobula jiangxi Liu, 2022 – China
- Orthobula marusiki Haddad, Jin & Platnick, 2022 – Gambia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Rep.
- Orthobula mikhailovi Marusik, 2021 – Iran
- Orthobula milloti Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Orthobula nigra He & Jin, 2024 – China
- 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 (Borneo, Sulawesi)
- Orthobula radiata Simon, 1897 – Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
- Orthobula sicca Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
- Orthobula spiniformis Tso, Zhu, J. X. Zhang & F. 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
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Orthobula Simon, 1897". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-16.
- ^ Simon, E. (1897). "Etudes arachnologiques. 27e Mémoire. XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 65: 465–510.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00080.x. S2CID 83947168.
- ^ Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 343. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.
- ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.
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