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Zosis
Sign in to saveZosis is a genus of spiders in the family Uloboridae. Mostly a South American genus, Z. geniculata has been introduced worldwide.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 48
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Uloboridae
- Collections
- MCZ, MPEG, QM, WAM, AM, MNRJ
- Recorded in
- Australia, Brazil, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Uloboridae
- Image
- Zosis.geniculatus.male.-.tanikawa.jpg
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- Zosis
- taxon name
- Zosis
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Zosis
- taxon author citation
- Walckenaer, 1841
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Zosis is a genus of spiders in the family Uloboridae. Mostly a South American genus, Z. geniculata has been introduced worldwide.
==Species== , this genus includes three species and two subspecies: Zosis costalimae (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Brazil Zosis geniculata (Olivier, 1789) – USA to Brazil, Caribbean, Galapagos. Introduced to Canada, Macaronesia, St. Helena, West Africa, Seychelles, India, China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Pacific Islands (type species) Z. g. fusca (Caporiacco, 1948) – Guyana Z. g. timorensis (Schenkel, 1944) – Timor Zosis peruana (Keyserling, 1881) – Colombia to Argentina
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