Corasoides

Corasoides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Desidae
Genus:	Corasoides Butler, 1929[1]
Type species
C. australis Butler, 1929
Species
10, see text

Corasoides is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1929.[2] Originally placed with the Agelenidae,[2] it was moved to the Stiphidiidae in 1973,[3] and to the Desidae after a 2017 genetic study.[4]

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains ten species, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea:[1]

• Corasoides angusi Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides australis Butler, 1929 (type) – Australia
• Corasoides cowanae Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides motumae Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Corasoides mouldsi Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
• Corasoides nebula Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides nimbus Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides occidentalis Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Corasoides stellaris Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides terania Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

See also

• List of Desidae species

References

1. "Gen. Corasoides Butler, 1929". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Butler, L. S. G. (1929). "Studies in Victorian spiders. No. 1". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 42: 41–52.
3. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 128.
4. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling" (PDF). Cladistics. 33 (6): 606. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.