Nilus

Nilus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.^[3]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and India:^[1]

• Nilus albocinctus (Doleschall, 1859) – India to Philippines
• Nilus curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) – Africa
• Nilus decorata (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India
• Nilus esimoni (Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar
• Nilus jayakari (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman
• Nilus kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa
• Nilus leoninus (Strand, 1916) – Madagascar
• Nilus majungensis (Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar
• Nilus margaritatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, South Africa
• Nilus massajae (Pavesi, 1883) – Africa
• Nilus paralbocinctus (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos
• Nilus phipsoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – India to China, Indonesia
• Nilus pictus (Simon, 1898) – West, Central Africa
• Nilus pseudoalbocinctus (Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) – India
• Nilus pseudojuvenilis (Sierwald, 1987) – Mozambique
• Nilus radiatolineatus (Strand, 1906) – Africa
• Nilus rossi (Pocock, 1902) – Central, South Africa
• Nilus rubromaculatus (Thorell, 1899) – West, Central Africa

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

References