Origes

Origes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Origes Simon, 1897[1]
Type species
O. pollens Simon, 1897
Species
O. chloroticus Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina O. nigrovittatus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru O. pollens Simon, 1897 – Ecuador

Origes is a genus of South American huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1897.[2] As of September 2019^[update] it contains three species, found in Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina: O. chloroticus, O. nigrovittatus, and O. pollens.[1] O. chloroticus may be misplaced in this genus and family.[3]

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Origes Simon, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Simon, E. (1897). "Etudes arachnologiques. 27e Mémoire. XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 65: 465–510.
3. Jäger, P.; Rheims, C. A. (2008). "On the genera Origes Simon 1897, Prusias O. Pickard-Cambridge 1892, Tibellomma Simon 1903 and Paenula Simon 1897 from South and Central America". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 88: 31.