''Baalzebub'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
ray spiders first described by
Jonathan A. Coddington
Jonathan A. Coddington is an American museum scientist and biologist. From 2009 to 2014, he was the Associate Director for Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), located in Washington, D.C., United States. , he is th ...
in 1986.
Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves.
Species
it contains seven extant and one fossil species:
* ''
B. acutum''
Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
* ''
B. albonotatus''
(Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
* ''
B. baubo''
Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
* ''
B. brauni''
(Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
* ''
B. nemesis''
Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
* ''
B. rastrarius''
Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
* ''
B. youyiensis''
Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
* ?†''
B. mesozoicum'' -
Vendée amber, France,
Turonian
The Turonian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS' geologic timescale, the second age (geology), age in the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch, or a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the Upper Cretaceous series (stratigraphy), ...
later considered to be stem-
Theridiosomatidae
Theridiosomatidae, commonly known as ray spiders, are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1881. The family includes 137 species divided between 20 genera. They are most recognizable for their construction of cone-sha ...
References
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Araneomorphae genera
Theridiosomatidae
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of South America
Spiders of the Caribbean
Spiders of Australia
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