Fufius

Fufius
F. lucasae, female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Cyrtaucheniidae
Genus:	Fufius Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
F. atramentarius Simon, 1888
Species
13, see text
Synonyms[1][2]
Hermorhachias Mello-Leitão, 1941[3] Metriura Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2009

Fufius is a genus of Central and South American Rhytidicolidae that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.[4] Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Cyrtaucheniidae in 1941 and to Rhytidicolidae in 2022.[5]

Species

As of September 2022^[update] it contains thirteen species:[1]

• Fufius albovittatus (Simon, 1891) – Brazil
• Fufius annulipes (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Colombia
• Fufius antillensis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Trinidad
• Fufius atramentarius Simon, 1888 (type) – Central America
• Fufius auricomus (Simon, 1891) – Brazil
• Fufius candango Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
• Fufius ecuadorensis (Simon, 1892) – Ecuador
• Fufius funebris Vellard, 1924 – Brazil
• Fufius jalapensis Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
• Fufius lanicius (Simon, 1892) – Bolivia
• Fufius lucasae Guadanucci & Indicatti, 2004 – Brazil
• Fufius minusculus Ortega, Nagahama, Motta & Bertani, 2013 – Brazil
• Fufius striatipes (Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2009) – Brazil

References

1. "Gen. Fufius Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
2. Bertani, R.; Fukushima, C. S.; Nagahama, R. H. (2012). "Metriura Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2009 (Araneae: Dipluridae) is a junior synonym of Fufius Simon, 1888 (Araneae: Cyrtaucheniidae)". Zoologia. 29 (5): 494. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702012000500016.
3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 134.
4. Simon, E. (1888). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 203–216.
5. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941). "Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 13: 234.