Orthobula

Orthobula is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a member of Liocranidae.[2] It was transferred to Corinnidae in 2002,[3] to Phrurolithidae in 2014,[4] and to Trachelidae in 2017.[5]

Orthobula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Trachelidae
Genus:	Orthobula Simon, 1897[1]
Type species
O. impressa Simon, 1897
Species
17, see text

Species

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

• Orthobula bilobata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is.)
• Orthobula calceata Simon, 1897 – Sierra Leone
• Orthobula charitonovi (Mikhailov, 1986) – Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia
• Orthobula crucifera Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – China, Korea, Japan
• Orthobula impressa Simon, 1897 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Reunion
• Orthobula infima Simon, 1896 – South Africa
• Orthobula milloti Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Orthobula pura Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Orthobula qinghaiensis Hu, 2001 – China
• Orthobula quadrinotata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Orthobula radiata Simon, 1897 – South Africa
• Orthobula sicca Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
• Orthobula spiniformis Tso, Zhu, Zhang & Zhang, 2005 – Taiwan
• Orthobula tibenensis Hu, 2001 – China
• Orthobula trinotata Simon, 1896 – Philippines
• Orthobula yaginumai Platnick, 1977 – China
• Orthobula zhangmuensis Hu & Li, 1987 – China

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Orthobula Simon, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
2. Simon, E. (1897). "Etudes arachnologiques. 27e Mémoire. XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 65: 465–510.
3. Bosselaers, J.; Jocqué, R. (2002). "Studies in Corinnidae: cladistic analysis of 38 corinnid and liocranid genera, and transfer of Phrurolithinae". Zoologica Scripta. 31 (3): 265. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00080.x.
4. Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 343. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066.
5. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182.