Sparianthis

Sparianthis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Sparianthis Simon, 1880
Type species
Sparianthis granadensis (Keyserling, 1880)
Species
13, see text

Sparianthis is a genus of huntsman spiders, first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.[1] They’re found in South America and Panama.[2]

Species

As of August 2024^[update] it contains the following twenty species:[3]

• Sparianthis accentuata (Caporiacco, 1955) — Venezuela
• Sparianthis beebei Rheims, 2020 — Trinidad and Tobago
• Sparianthis boibumba Casas & Rheims, 2024 — Brazil
• Sparianthis boraris Rheims, 2020 — Brazil
• Sparianthis caracarai Rheims, 2020 — Brazil
• Sparianthis cascalheira Casas & Rheims, 2024 — Brazil
• Sparianthis chicaque Casas & Rheims, 2024 — Colombia
• Sparianthis chickeringi (Gertsch, 1941) — Panama
• Sparianthis crulsi (Mello-Leitão, 1930) — Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Brazil
• Sparianthis granadensis (Keyserling, 1880) — Colombia
• Sparianthis humaita Rheims, 2020 — Brazil
• Sparianthis iguaque Casas & Rheims, 2024 — Colombia
• Sparianthis juazeiro Rheims, 2020 — Brazil
• Sparianthis juruti Rheims, 2020 — Brazil
• Sparianthis matupiri Casas & Rheims, 2024 — Brazil
• Sparianthis medina Casas & Rheims, 2024 — Colombia
• Sparianthis megalopalpa (Caporiacco, 1954) — Ecuador, French Guiana
• Sparianthis picta (Simon, 1887) — Peru, Brazil
• Sparianthis ravida (Simon, 1898) — St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
• Sparianthis tuparro Casas & Rheims, 2024 — Colombia

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

References

1. Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 34: 223–351.
2. Casas, Cristian M.; Rheims, Cristina A. (2024-08-20). "An update on the genus Sparianthis Simon, 1880 (Sparassidae: Sparianthinae)". Zootaxa. 5496 (3): 343–369. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5496.3.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
3. "Gen. Sparianthis Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 25 May 2022.