''Nilus'' 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
nursery web spiders that was first described by
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider from a large collection that he made with contrib ...
in 1876.
Species
it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
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Nilus albocinctus''
( Doleschall, 1859) – India to Philippines
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Nilus curtus''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (
type) – Africa
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Nilus decorata''
(Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India
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Nilus esimoni''
(Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar
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Nilus jayakari''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman
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Nilus kolosvaryi''
( Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa
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Nilus leoninus''
( Strand, 1916) – Madagascar
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Nilus majungensis''
(Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar
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Nilus margaritatus''
( Pocock, 1898) – Central, South Africa
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Nilus massajae''
(Pavesi, 1883) – Africa
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Nilus paralbocinctus''
(Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos
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Nilus phipsoni''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – India to China, Indonesia
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Nilus pictus''
( Simon, 1898) – West, Central Africa
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Nilus pseudoalbocinctus''
(Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) – India
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Nilus pseudojuvenilis''
(Sierwald, 1987) – Mozambique
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Nilus radiatolineatus''
(Strand, 1906) – Africa
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Nilus rossi''
(Pocock, 1902) – Central, South Africa
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Nilus rubromaculatus''
( Thorell, 1899) – West, Central Africa
See also
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List of Pisauridae species
References
Araneomorphae genera
Pisauridae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Australia
Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
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