Zosis

Zosis
Female Zosis geniculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Uloboridae
Genus:	Zosis Walckenaer, 1841[1]

Zosis is a genus of spiders in the family Uloboridae.

Species

As of December 2022^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted 5 species:[1]

• Zosis costalimae (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Brazil
• Zosis geniculata (Olivier, 1789) – Southern USA to Brazil, Caribbean. Introduced to Macaronesia, West Africa, Seychelles, India, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, Hawaii
  • Zosis geniculata fusca (Caporiacco, 1948) – Guyana
  • Zosis geniculata timorensis (Schenkel, 1944) – Timor
• Zosis peruana (Keyserling, 1881) – Colombia to Argentina

References

1. "Gen. Zosis Walckenaer, 1841", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-05-02