''Orthobula'' 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
araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...
spiders first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1897 as a member of
Liocranidae
Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus '' Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscur ...
.
It was transferred to
Corinnidae
Corinnidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, sometimes called corinnid sac spiders. The family, like other "clubionoid" families, has a confusing taxonomic history. Once it was a part of the large catch-all taxon Clubionidae, now very much sm ...
in 2002,
to
Phrurolithidae
Phrurolithidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, known as guardstone spiders. The family was first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. First included in the Corinnidae as the subfamily Phrurolithinae, later phylogenetic studies justified a separ ...
in 2014,
and to
Trachelidae
Trachelidae is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The ...
in 2017.
Species
it contains twenty species:
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Orthobula bilobata''
Deeleman-Reinhold
Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold (23 November 1930 – 26 March 2025) was a Dutch arachnologist. She specialized in spiders from Southeast Asia and Southern Europe, particularly cave-dwelling and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of ...
, 2001 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is.)
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Orthobula calceata''
Simon, 1897 – Sierra Leone
*''
Orthobula charitonovi''
(Mikhailov, 1986) – Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia
*''
Orthobula chayuensis''
Yang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China
*''
Orthobula crucifera''
Bösenberg & Strand
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Places Africa
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* ...
, 1906 – China, Korea, Japan
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Orthobula impressa''
Simon, 1897 (
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* ...
) – India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Reunion
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Orthobula mikhailovi''
Marusik, 2021 – Iran
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Orthobula milloti''
Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
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Orthobula puncta''
Yang, Song & Zhu, 2003 – China
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Orthobula pura''
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Orthobula qinghaiensis''
Hu, 2001 – China
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Orthobula quadrinotata''
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Orthobula radiata''
Simon, 1897 – South Africa
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Orthobula sicca''
Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
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Orthobula spiniformis''
Tso, Zhu, Zhang & Zhang, 2005 – Taiwan
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Orthobula sudamericana''
Piñanez & Munévar, 2022 – Paraguay, Argentina
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Orthobula tibenensis''
Hu, 2001 – China
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Orthobula trinotata''
Simon, 1896 – Philippines
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Orthobula yaginumai''
Platnick, 1977 – China
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Orthobula zhangmuensis''
Hu & Li, 1987 – China
References
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
Trachelidae
{{Trachelidae-stub