Nilus

Nilus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876. Species it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and India: Nilus albocinctus (Doleschall, 1859) – India to Philippines Nilus curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) – Africa Nilus decorata (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India Nilus esimoni (Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar Nilus jayakari (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman Nilus kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa Nilus leoninus (Strand, 1916) – Madagascar Nilus majungensis (Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar Nilus margaritatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, South Africa Nilus massajae (Pavesi, 1883) – Africa Nilus paralbocinctus (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos Nilus phipsoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – India to China, Indonesia Nilus pictus (Simon, 1898) – West, Central Africa Nilus pseudoalbocinctus (Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) – India Nilus pseudojuvenilis (Sierwald, 1987) – Mozambique Nilus radiatolineatus (Strand, 1906) – Africa Nilus rossi (Pocock, 1902) – Central, South Africa Nilus rubromaculatus (Thorell, 1899) – West, Central Africa See also List of Pisauridae species References