Gnolus

Gnolus
	G. cordiformis (top center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Gnolus; Simon, 1879
Type species
	G. cordiformis; (Nicolet, 1849)
Species
	6, see text

Gnolus is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1879. Originally placed with the orb-weaving spiders, it was transferred to the pirate spiders in 1993, but moved back to orb-weaver family in 2012.

Species

As of August 2024^[update] it contains six species, found in Argentina and Chile:

Gnolus angulifrons Simon, 1896 – Chile, Argentina
Gnolus blinkeni Platnick & Shadab, 1993 – Chile, Argentina
Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849) (type) – Chile, Argentina
Gnolus limbatus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
Gnolus spiculator (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
Gnolus zonulatus Tullgren, 1902 – Chile, Argentina

In synonymy:

G. affinis Tullgren, 1902 = Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849)

References

1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Gnolus Simon, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
↑ Simon, E. (1879). "Note sur les Epeiridae de la sous-famille des Arcyinae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 22: 55–61.
↑ Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1993). "A review of the pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) of Chile". American Museum Novitates (3074): 18.
↑ Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2012). "Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1732): 1341–50. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2011. PMC 3282380. PMID 22048955.

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[wsc-1] 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Gnolus Simon, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2024-08-18.

[Simo1879-2] Simon, E. (1879). "Note sur les Epeiridae de la sous-famille des Arcyinae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 22: 55–61.

[Plat1993-3] Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1993). "A review of the pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) of Chile". American Museum Novitates (3074): 18.

[Dimi2012-4] Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2012). "Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1732): 1341–50. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2011. PMC 3282380. PMID 22048955.