Amaurobius

Amaurobius
Amaurobius similis (male)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Amaurobiidae
Genus:	Amaurobius C. L. Koch, 1837 [1]
Type species
Aranea atrox De Geer, 1778
Species
68, see text
Synonyms [1]
Walmus Chamberlin, 1947 [2]

Amaurobius is a genus of tangled nest spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837. ^[3]

Species

As of December 2024 ^[update] it contains sixty-eight species: ^[1]

• A. agastus (Chamberlin, 1947) – USA
• A. annulatus (Kulczyński, 1906) – Croatia, Montenegro
• A. antipovae Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2004 – Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
• A. ausobskyi Thaler & Knoflach, 1998 – Greece
• A. barbaricus Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. barbarus Simon, 1911 – Algeria, Spain
• A. borealis Emerton, 1909 – USA, Canada
• A. candia Thaler & Knoflach, 2002 – Greece (Crete)
• A. caucasicus Marusik, Otto & Japoshvili, 2020 – Georgia
• A. cerberus Fage, 1931 – Spain
• A. corruptus Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. crassipalpis Canestrini & Pavesi, 1870 – Germany, Switzerland, Italy
• A. cretaensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (Crete)
• A. danba Lin & Li, 2024 – China
• A. deelemanae Thaler & Knoflach, 1995 – Greece, Crete
• A. diablo Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. distortus Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. dorotheae (Chamberlin, 1947) – USA
• A. drenskii Kratochvíl, 1934 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
• A. erberi (Keyserling, 1863) – Canary Is., Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
• A. fenestralis (Ström, 1768) (type) – Europe to Central Asia
• A. ferox (Walckenaer, 1830) – Europe, Turkey. Introduced to Canada, USA, Mexico
• A. festae Caporiacco, 1934 – Libya
• A. galeritus Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. geminus Thaler & Knoflach, 2002 – Greece (Crete)
• A. guangwushanensis Wang, Irfan, Zhou & Zhang, 2023 – China
• A. hagiellus (Chamberlin, 1947) – USA
• A. heathi (Chamberlin, 1947) – USA
• A. hercegovinensis Kulczyński, 1915 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro
• A. intermedius Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. jugorum L. Koch, 1868 – Europe
• A. kratochvili Miller, 1938 – Croatia, Albania
• A. latebrosus Simon, 1874 – France (Corsica)
• A. latescens (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA
• A. leechi Brignoli, 1983 – USA
• A. lesbius Bosmans, 2011 – Greece
• A. longipes Thaler & Knoflach, 1995 – Greece
• A. mathetes (Chamberlin, 1947) – USA
• A. mephisto (Chamberlin, 1947) – USA
• A. minor Kulczyński, 1915 – Eastern Europe
• A. minorca Barrientos & Febrer, 2018 – Spain (Menorca)
• A. minutus Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. obustus L. Koch, 1868 – Europe
• A. occidentalis Simon, 1893 – Portugal, Spain, France
• A. ossa Thaler & Knoflach, 1993 – Greece
• A. pallidus L. Koch, 1868 – Southeastern Europe to Georgia
• A. palomar Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. paon Thaler & Knoflach, 1993 – Greece
• A. pavesii Pesarini, 1991 – Italy
• A. pelops Thaler & Knoflach, 1991 – Greece
• A. pesarinii Ballarin & Pantini, 2017 – Italy
• A. phaeacus Thaler & Knoflach, 1998 – Albania, Macedonia, Greece
• A. prosopidus Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. ruffoi Thaler, 1990 – Italy
• A. scopolii Thorell, 1871 – France, Italy, Slovenia
• A. similis (Blackwall, 1861) – Europe, Caucasus. Introduced to North America
• A. songi Zhang, Wang & Zhang, 2018 – China
• A. spinatus Zhang, Wang & Zhang, 2018 – China
• A. strandi Charitonov, 1937 – Greece, Bulgaria, Ukraine
• A. tamalpais Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. transversus Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. triangularis Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. tristis L. Koch, 1875 – Eritrea
• A. tulare Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. vachoni Hubert, 1965 – Spain
• A. vexans Leech, 1972 – USA
• A. wulongdongensis Wang, Irfan, Zhou & Zhang, 2023 – China
• A. yaan Lin & Li, 2024 – China

References

1. "Gen. Amaurobius C. L. Koch, 1837". World Spider Catalog Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2024. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2024-12-23.
2. Leech, R. E. (1972). "A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneida)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 84: 70.
3. Koch, C. L. (1837). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Dritter Band. pp. 105–119.