Bucranium (spider)

Bucranium
Bucranium taurifrons
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus:
Pickard-Cambridge, 1881[1]
Species

See text.

Bucranium is a genus of spiders in the family Thomisidae.[1]

Species

As of December 2021, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following four extant species:[1]

  • Bucranium affine (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico
  • Bucranium pulchrum (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
  • Bucranium spinigerum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Guatemala
  • Bucranium taurifrons O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 (type species) – Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Bucranium Pickard-Cambridge, 1881", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2021-12-21