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Talanites

Talanites is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.

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Talanites
close up picture of Talanites echinus
Cephalothorax of Talanites echinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Talanites
Simon, 18931
Type species
T. fervidus
Simon, 1893
Species

15, see text

Synonyms1

Talanites is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.4

Species

As of May 2019 it contains fifteen species:1

  • Talanites atscharicus Mcheidze, 1946 – Georgia, Kazakhstan
  • Talanites captiosus (Gertsch & Davis, 1936) – Southern Texas,2 Mexico
  • Talanites cavernicola Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
  • Talanites dunini Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991 – Israel, Central Asia
  • Talanites echinus (Chamberlin, 1922) – Southeastern United States5
  • Talanites exlineae (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – Southeastern United States5
  • Talanites fagei Spassky, 1938 – Azerbaijan, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia
  • Talanites fervidus Simon, 1893 (type) – Egypt, Israel
  • Talanites mikhailovi Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991 – Kazakhstan
  • Talanites moodyae Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991 – California3
  • Talanites ornatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Egypt
  • Talanites santschii Dalmas, 1918 – Tunisia
  • Talanites strandi Spassky, 1940 – Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
  • Talanites tibialis Caporiacco, 1934 – India, Pakistan
  • Talanites ubicki Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991 – California3
References

References

  1. "Gen. Talanites Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1976). "A revision of the spider genera Rachodrassus, Sosticus, and Scopodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America". American Museum Novitates (2594): 4.
  3. Platnick, N. I.; Ovtsharenko, V. I. (1991). "On Eurasian and American Talanites (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 19: 115–121.
  4. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  5. "Genus Talanites". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-05.