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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Battalus Karsch, 18781 |
| Type species | |
| B. spinipes Karsch, 1878 | |
| Species | |
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13, see text | |
Battalus is a genus of Australian corinnid sac spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1878.2 Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2015.3
Species
As of April 2019 it contains thirteen species:1
- Battalus adamparsonsi Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
- Battalus baehrae Raven, 2015 — Australia (South Australia)
- Battalus bidgemia Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
- Battalus boolathana Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia)
- Battalus byrneae Raven, 2015 — Australia (Tasmania)
- Battalus diadens Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
- Battalus helenstarkae Raven, 2015 — Australia (South Australia)
- Battalus microspinosus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
- Battalus rugosus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
- Battalus semiflavus (Simon, 1896) — Australia (Queensland)
- Battalus spinipes Karsch, 1878 — Australia (Queensland)
- Battalus wallum Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Battalus zuytdorp Raven, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia)
References
References
- "Gen. Battalus Karsch, 1878". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- Karsch, F. (1878). "Exotisch-araneologisches". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 51: 771–826.
- Raven, R. J. (2015). "A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific". Zootaxa. 3958 (1): 38. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3958.1.1. PMID 26249225.