Baalzebub (spider)

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	Baalzebub
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiosomatidae
Genus:	Baalzebub ; Coddington 1986
Type species
	B. baubo Coddington, 1986;
Species
	see text

Last updated May 28, 2025

Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.^[2] Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves. ^[3]

Species

As of March 2020^[update] it contains seven extant and one fossil species:^[1]

B. acutum Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
B. albonotatus (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
B. baubo Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
B. brauni (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
B. nemesis Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
B. rastrarius Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
B. youyiensis Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
?† B. mesozoicum Penney 2014 - Vendée amber, France, Turonian ^[4] later considered to be stem-Theridiosomatidae ^[5]

References

1 2 "Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
↑ Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422 (422): 1–96. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.422.
↑ Prete, Pedro; Cizaukas, Igor; Brescovit, Antonio. "A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment.
↑ "A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France". Paleontological Contributions. 2014-12-01. doi: 10.17161/pc.1808.15982 . hdl: 1808/15982 . ISSN 1946-0279.
↑ Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Azevedo, Guilherme H. F.; Michalik, Peter; Ramírez, Martín J. (February 2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic" . Biological Reviews. 95 (1): 184–217. doi:10.1111/brv.12559. ISSN 1464-7931. PMID 31713947. S2CID 207937170.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 "Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.

[Codd1986-2] Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422 (422): 1–96. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.422.

[3] Prete, Pedro; Cizaukas, Igor; Brescovit, Antonio. "A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment.

[4] "A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France". Paleontological Contributions. 2014-12-01. doi: 10.17161/pc.1808.15982 . hdl: 1808/15982 . ISSN 1946-0279.

[5] Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Azevedo, Guilherme H. F.; Michalik, Peter; Ramírez, Martín J. (February 2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic" . Biological Reviews. 95 (1): 184–217. doi:10.1111/brv.12559. ISSN 1464-7931. PMID 31713947. S2CID 207937170.

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Baalzebub (spider)

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