Rothus

Rothus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Africa and Israel: R. aethiopicus, R. auratus, and R. vittatus.[1]

Rothus
R. aethiopicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Rothus
Simon, 1898[1]
Species
  • R. aethiopicus (Pavesi, 1883) – Africa, Israel
  • R. auratus Pocock, 1900 – South Africa
  • R. vittatus Simon, 1898 – South Africa

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Rothus Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Simon, E. (1898). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 42: 5–34.


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