Bolostromus
| Bolostromus Temporal range:
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| Bolostromus sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Cyrtaucheniidae |
| Genus: | Bolostromus Ausserer, 1875[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. venustus Ausserer, 1875
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| Species | |
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23, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Bolostromus is a genus of wafer trapdoor spiders that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[4]
Species
As of October 2025, this genus includes 24 species:[1]
- Bolostromus albertinae García-Villafuerte, 2023 – Mexico
- Bolostromus busu Dupérré, 2023 – Dominican Republic
- Bolostromus compi Osorio, Martínez-Hernández & Sherwood, 2024 – Colombia
- Bolostromus devriesi Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus epiphyticus Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus fauna (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
- Bolostromus fonsecai Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus gaujoni (Simon, 1889) – Ecuador
- Bolostromus holguinensis Rudloff, 1996 – Cuba
- Bolostromus hubeni Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus insularis (Simon, 1892) – St. Vincent
- Bolostromus italoi Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus laheredia Dupérré, 2023 – Costa Rica
- Bolostromus losrios Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus nischki Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus panamanus (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Costa Rica, Panama
- Bolostromus primus Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus pristirana Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus pulchripes (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
- Bolostromus riveti Simon, 1903 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus stridulator Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus urku Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus valdivia Dupérré, 2023 – Ecuador
- Bolostromus venustus Ausserer, 1875 – Colombia (type species)
Bolostromus suspectus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1911, described from a juvenile from Uganda, is considered a nomen dubium.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Bolostromus Ausserer, 1875". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ a b Simon, E. (1903). Histoire naturelle des araignées (2nd ed.). Paris. pp. 669–1080.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 136.
- ^ Ausserer, A. (1875). "Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 25: 125–206.
- ^ Sherwood, D. (2025). "Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024". Arthropoda Selecta. 34 (1): 121–160. doi:10.15298/arthsel.34.1.10.
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