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Fufius Simon 1888

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional del Sur, & E-mail: matiasberatz 3 @ gmail. com
  • 2. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional del Sur, & E-mail: matiasberatz 3 @ gmail. com & Grupo de Investigaciones Aracnológicas del Sur (GIAS), Centro de Recursos & E-mail: nferretti @ conicet. gov. ar
  • 3. Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú, Urbanización Mariscal Gamarra A- 61, Cusco, Perú & E-mail: jchaparroauza @ yahoo. com
  • 4. 6365 Willowpark Way, Sooke, British Columbia, Canada & E-mail: rickcwest 3 @ gmail. com

Description

Genus Fufius Simon, 1888

Fufius Simon, 1888: 212. Transferred from Dipluridae to Cyrtaucheniidae (Raven, 1985) and later to Rhytidicolidae (Montes de Oca et al., 2022). Several genera previously proposed as distinct have been treated as its junior synonyms (Simon, 1903; Raven, 1985; Bertani et al., 2012).

Ty p e s p e c i e s. By original designation, Fufius atramentarius Simon, 1888.

D i a g n o s i s. See Raven (1985): 134–135.

Notes

Published as part of Beratz, M. J., Ferretti, N. E., Chaparro, J. C. & West, R. C., 2026, Mygalomorph Spiders From Peru (Araneae, Pycnothelidae, Rhytidicolidae): Description Of Two New Species And First Peruvian Record Of The Family Rhytidicolidae, pp. 109-120 in Zoodiversity 60 (2) on page 115, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2026.02.109, http://zenodo.org/record/20505669

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Simon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Rhytidicolidae
Genus
Fufius
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Fufius Simon, 1888 sec. Beratz, Ferretti, Chaparro & West, 2026

References

  • Simon, E. 1888. Etudes arachnologiques. 21 e Memoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'especes et de genres nouveaux de l'Amerique centrale et des Antilles. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, (6) 8, 203-216.
  • Raven, R. J. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 182: 1-180.
  • Montes de Oca, L., Indicatti, R. P., Opatova, V., Almeida, M., Perez-Miles, F. & Bond, J. E. 2022. Phylogenomic analysis, reclassification, and evolution of South American nemesioid burrowing mygalomorph spiders. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 168 (107377): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107377
  • Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des araignees. Tome 2. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 669-1080.
  • Bertani, R., Fukushima, C. S. & Nagahama, R. H. 2012. Metriura Drolshagen & Backstam, 2009 (Araneae: Dipluridae) is a junior synonym of Fufius Simon, 1888 (Araneae: Cyrtaucheniidae). Zoologia, 29, 493-495. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702012000500016