Battalus

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Battalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Battalus Karsch, 1878 [1]
Type species
B. spinipes Karsch, 1878
Species
13, see text

Battalus is a genus of Australian corinnid sac spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1878. ^[2] Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2015. ^[3]

Species

As of April 2019 ^[update] it contains thirteen species: ^[1]

• Battalus adamparsonsi Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
• Battalus baehrae Raven, 2015 — Australia (South Australia)
• Battalus bidgemia Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
• Battalus boolathana Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia)
• Battalus byrneae Raven, 2015 — Australia (Tasmania)
• Battalus diadens Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
• Battalus helenstarkae Raven, 2015 — Australia (South Australia)
• Battalus microspinosus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
• Battalus rugosus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
• Battalus semiflavus (Simon, 1896) — Australia (Queensland)
• Battalus spinipes Karsch, 1878 — Australia (Queensland)
• Battalus wallum Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Battalus zuytdorp Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia)

References

1. "Gen. Battalus Karsch, 1878". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
2. Karsch, F. (1878). "Exotisch-araneologisches". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 51: 771–826.
3. Raven, R. J. (2015). "A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific". Zootaxa. 3958 (1): 38. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3958.1.1. PMID   26249225.