Josa_(spider)

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Josa (spider)

Genus of spiders

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Josa is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1891.[4][page needed] It is a senior synonym of "Gayenella", "Haptisus", "Olbophthalmus",[2] and "Pelayo".[3]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains fifteen species:[1]

  • Josa analis (Simon, 1897)—Venezuela
  • Josa andesiana (Berland, 1913)—Ecuador
  • Josa bryantae (Caporiacco, 1955)—Venezuela
  • Josa calilegua Ramírez, 2003—Argentina
  • Josa chazaliae (Simon, 1897)—Colombia
  • Josa gounellei (Simon, 1897)—Brazil
  • Josa keyserlingi (L. Koch, 1866)—Colombia, Brazil
  • Josa laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)—Costa Rica
  • Josa lojensis (Berland, 1913)—Ecuador
  • Josa lutea (Keyserling, 1878)—Colombia, Ecuador
  • Josa maura (Simon, 1897)—Venezuela
  • Josa nigrifrons (Simon, 1897)—Mexico to Bolivia
  • Josa personata (Simon, 1897)—Ecuador
  • Josa riveti (Berland, 1913)—Ecuador, Bolivia
  • Josa simoni (Berland, 1913)—Ecuador

References

  1. [1]
    "Gen. Josa Keyserling, 1891". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. [2]
    Ramírez, M. J. (2003). "The spider subfamily Amaurobioidinae (Araneae, Anyphaenidae): a phylogenetic revision at the generic level". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 277: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2003)277<0001:TSSAAA>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/445. S2CID 84027902.
  3. [3]
    Brescovit, A. D. (1993). "Lepajan, um gênero novo de aranhas neotropicais e sinonímia de Pelayo Pickard-Cambridge com Josa Keyserling (Araneae, Anyphaenidae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (in Portuguese). 37: 129. doi:10.1590/S0101-81751996000500001.
  4. [4]
    Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Nuremberg: Verlag von Bauer & Raspe (E. Küster). Retrieved 16 March 2021.
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