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Genus Olios

Spider - Olios giganteus Giant Crab Spider - Olios giganteus Large spider - Olios giganteus Unknown Spider from Mojave Desert of California - Olios giganteus Spider living in can - Olios giganteus Reserve Spider - Olios giganteus Spooky Spider! - Olios giganteus Unidentified Wolf Spider - Olios giganteus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Sparassidae (Huntsmen Spiders)
Genus Olios
Numbers
1 species in BugGuide's range (North America north of Mexico).
Identification
Olios giganteus Keyserling - dark chelicerae, prominent heart mark.(1)
Range
O. giganteus - CA, AZ, NM, TX, UT, NV(1)(2)
Remarks
Rheims, 2010(1), reduces the genus Olios down to 4 species (a 5th is considered unrecognizable).

Rheims, 2015(3), moves many species of Olios to the new genus Curicaberis.

"The name Olios fasciculatus turned out to be based on mislabeled specimens from Africa." ~Rod Crawford
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Print References
Rheims, Cristina, 2010. On the native Nearctic species of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae Bertkau (Araneae). Journal of Arachnology 38(3): 530-537.