Faiditus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1884.[3]

Faiditus
Temporal range: Neogene– Present
Faiditus xiphias
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Faiditus
Keyserling, 1884[1]
Type species
F. ecaudatus
Keyserling, 1884
Species

59, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Bellinda Keyserling, 1884 (removed from S of Argyrodes Simon, 1784)[2]
Faiditus spp. male
Suspended Faiditus sp. male

Species edit

As of May 2020 it contains fifty-nine species, all found in the Americas except for F. xiphias, found in Asia:[1]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Faiditus Keyserling, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  2. ^ Agnarsson, I. (2004). "Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 478. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x.
  3. ^ Keyserling, E. (1884). Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 1. pp. 1–222. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.