Janula

Janula is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1932.[3] It is a senior synonym of Monetoculus.[2]

Janula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Janula
Strand, 1932[1]
Type species
J. bicornis
(Thorell, 1881)
Species

21, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Monetoculus Wunderlich, 2008[2]

Species

As of May 2020 it contains twenty-one species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Panama, and Queensland:[1]

  • Janula batman Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula bicorniger (Simon, 1894) – Brazil
  • Janula bicornis (Thorell, 1881) (type) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Janula bicruciata (Simon, 1895) – Brazil
  • Janula bifrons (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
  • Janula bizona Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula bruneiensis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula bubalis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
  • Janula erythrophthalma (Simon, 1894) – Panama, Lesser Antilles to Bolivia
  • Janula luteolimbata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
  • Janula malachina (Simon, 1895) – Peru
  • Janula marginata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
  • Janula modesta (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
  • Janula nebulosa (Simon, 1895) – Brazil, Paraguay
  • Janula ocreata (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
  • Janula parva (Wunderlich, 2008) – Malaysia
  • Janula picta (Simon, 1895) – Singapore
  • Janula salobrensis (Simon, 1895) – Trinidad, Brazil, Guyana
  • Janula taprobanica (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
  • Janula triangularis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Singapore, Indonesia (Borneo)
  • Janula triocellata Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Janula Strand, 1932". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  2. Yoshida, H.; Koh, J. K. H. (2011). "Phoroncidia, Janula and a new genus Brunepisinus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Brunei". Acta Arachnologica. 60: 79. doi:10.2476/asjaa.60.75.
  3. Strand, E. (1932). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, III, IV". Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā. 4: 193–196.


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