Vindullus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.[2] Though often considered a synonym of Olios, it has been validated as its own genus.[3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Vindullus Simon, 1880[1] |
| Type species | |
| V. gracilipes (Taczanowski, 1872)
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Species
editAs of September 2019[update] it contains eight species, found in South America and Guatemala:[1]
- Vindullus angulatus Rheims & Jäger, 2008 – Peru, Ecuador, Brazil
- Vindullus concavus Rheims & Jäger, 2008 – Brazil
- Vindullus fugiens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890) – Guatemala
- Vindullus gibbosus Rheims & Jäger, 2008 – Peru, Suriname
- Vindullus gracilipes (Taczanowski, 1872) (type) – French Guiana, Brazil
- Vindullus guatemalensis (Keyserling, 1887) – Guatemala
- Vindullus kratochvili Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
- Vindullus undulatus Rheims & Jäger, 2008 – Colombia, Venezuela
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Vindullus Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 34: 223–351.
- ^ Rheims, C. A.; Jäger, P. (2008). "Revision of the Neotropical huntsman spider genus Vindullus Simon (Araneae, Sparassidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 36 (2): 221. doi:10.1636/CA07-90.1. S2CID 85985786.
- ^ Caporiacco, L. di (1955). "Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae". Acta Biologica Venezuelica. 1: 265–448.