Chthonos

Chthonos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiosomatidae
Genus:	Chthonos Coddington, 1986 [1]
Type species
C. pectorosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882)
Species
5, see text

Chthonos is a genus of South American ray spiders that was created by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986 because the previous name was preoccupied. ^[2] Originally placed with the Orb-weaver_spiders under the name Tecmessa, ^[3] it was transferred to the ray spiders in 1986. ^[2]

Species

As of June 2020 ^[update] it contains five species, found in Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador: ^[1]

• Chthonos kuyllur Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
• Chthonos pectorosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882) (type) – Brazil
• Chthonos peruana (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
• Chthonos quinquemucronata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil
• Chthonos tuberosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil

Formerly included:

• C. tetrabuna(Archer, 1965) (Transferred to Ogulnius )

See also

• List of Theridiosomatidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Chthonos Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-07-18.
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. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1882). "On new genera and species of Araneidea". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 50 (3): 434. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x. hdl: 2027/coo.31924018443543 .

Further reading

• Keyserling, E. (1886). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. pp. 1–295. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.
• Dupérré, N.; Tapia, E. (2017). "On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species". Zootaxa. 4341 (3): 375–399. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3. PMID   29245661.
• Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
• Simon, E. (1893). "Études arachnologiques. 25e Mémoire. XL. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 62: 299–330.