Janula
Appearance
	
	
| Janula | |
|---|---|
| J. bicornis from Australia | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae | 
| Family: | Theridiidae | 
| Genus: | Janula Strand, 1932[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| J. bicornis (Thorell, 1881) 
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| Species | |
| 
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Janula is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1932.[3] It is a senior synonym of Monetoculus.[2]
Species
[edit]As of September 2022[update] it contains forty-four species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Panama, and Queensland:[1]
- Janula aspus (Levi, 1964) – Nicaragua
 - Janula batman Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
 - Janula bicornigera (Simon, 1894) – Brazil
 - Janula bicornis (Thorell, 1881) (type) – Australia (Queensland)
 - Janula bicruciata (Simon, 1895) – Brazil
 - Janula bifrons (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
 - Janula bizona Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
 - Janula bruneiensis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
 - Janula bubalis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
 - Janula chiapensis (Levi, 1955) – Mexico, Costa Rica (Cocos Is.)
 - Janula colima (Levi, 1955) – Mexico to Panama
 - Janula crysus (Buckup & Marques, 1992) – Brazil
 - Janula cuzco (Levi, 1967) – Peru
 - Janula dominica (Levi, 1955) – Hispaniola
 - Janula erythrophthalma (Simon, 1894) – Panama, Lesser Antilles to Bolivia
 - Janula flores E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
 - Janula itaqui E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
 - Janula jimmyi (Chavari & Brescovit, 2014) – Colombia
 - Janula juarezi (Levi, 1955) – Mexico
 - Janula luteolimbata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
 - Janula lutzenbergeri E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
 - Janula malachina (Simon, 1895) – Peru, Brazil
 - Janula mamiraua E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
 - Janula manauara E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
 - Janula marginata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
 - Janula modesta (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
 - Janula moyobamba (Levi, 1964) – Peru
 - Janula nadleri (Levi, 1955) – Bahama Is., Jamaica
 - Janula nebulosa (Simon, 1895) – Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
 - Janula ocreata (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
 - Janula panamensis (Levi, 1955) – Panama
 - Janula parva (Wunderlich, 2008) – Malaysia
 - Janula picta (Simon, 1895) – Singapore
 - Janula pimenta E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
 - Janula pyrus (Levi, 1964) – Panama
 - Janula salobrensis (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil
 - Janula seguro E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
 - Janula taprobanica (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
 - Janula teresopolis (Levi, 1964) – Brazil
 - Janula triangularis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Thailand, Singapore, Brunei (Borneo)
 - Janula triocellata Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
 - Janula unitus (Levi, 1964) – Cuba, Jamaica
 - Janula vaticus (Levi, 1964) – Costa Rica, Panama
 - Janula zurlus (Levi, 1964) – Venezuela
 
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2022). "Gen. Janula Strand, 1932". World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
 - ^ a b Yoshida, H.; Koh, J. K. H. (2011). "Phoroncidia, Janula and a new genus Brunepisinus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Brunei". Acta Arachnologica. 60 (2): 79. doi:10.2476/asjaa.60.75.
 - ^ Strand, E. (1932). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, III, IV". Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā. 4: 193–196.