Viridasius

Viridasius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Viridasiidae
Genus: Viridasius
Simon, 1889[1]
Species: V. fasciatus
Binomial name
Viridasius fasciatus
(Lenz, 1886)[1]
Synonyms[1]

Species:

  • Phoneutria fasciata Lenz, 1886[2]
  • Viridasius pulchripes Simon, 1889[3][4]
  • Vulsor fasciatus Lehtinen, 1967[5]

Viridasius is a genus of spider endemic to Madagascar. The genus has only one species, Viridasius fasciatus.[1] It was moved from the Ctenidae family to the new Viridasiidae family in 2015.[6] It has long black and white striped legs extending from a body that is white with black spots. Females can grow 2 to 2.5 cm long, but the males are generally smaller.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Viridasius Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  2. ↑ Lenz, H. (1886). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna Madagascars". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 1: 404.
  3. ↑ Simon, E. (1889). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXI. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Madagascar et de Mayotte". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8 (6): 233.
  4. ↑ Silva, D. (2003). "Higher-level relationships of the spider family Ctenidae (Araneae: Ctenoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 284: 49.
  5. ↑ Simon, E. (1897). Histoire naturelle des araignées 2. Paris. p. 127.
  6. ↑ Polotow, D.; Carmichael, A.; Griswold, C.E. (2015). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders(Araneae, Entelegynae)". Invertebrate Systematics 29: 152.
  7. ↑ "Viridasius fasciatus (Lenz, 1886)" (in Polish). Arachnea.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
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