Urozelotes

Urozelotes is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.[2]

Urozelotes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Urozelotes
Mello-Leitão, 1938[1]
Type species
U. rusticus
(L. Koch, 1872)
Species

5, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species:[1]

  • Urozelotes kabenge FitzPatrick, 2005 – Zambia
  • Urozelotes mysticus Platnick & Murphy, 1984 – Italy
  • Urozelotes patulusus Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018 – India
  • Urozelotes rusticus (L. Koch, 1872) (type) – Both Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia. Native area unknown, probably Old World.
  • Urozelotes trifidus Tuneva, 2003 – France, Russia (Europe)

References
  1. "Gen. Urozelotes Mello-Leitão, 1938". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1938). "Algunas arañas nuevas de la Argentina". Revista del Museo de la Plata. New Series. 1: 89–118.


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