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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Giant Crab Spiders (Sparassidae) » Olios

Genus Olios

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Big SPIDER needs BIG indentification????? - Olios giganteus - female Spider #08-28 - Olios giganteus Olios - Olios giganteus Giant Crab Spider - Olios giganteus large spider tearing apart crane flies - Olios giganteus Brown Spider - Olios giganteus Unknown Spider from Mojave Desert of California - Olios giganteus Small Tarantula - 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 (Giant Crab 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
See Also
Curicaberis
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.
Works Cited
1.On the native Nearctic species of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae Bertkau (Araneae)
Cristina A. Rheims. 2010. Journal of Arachnology 38(3): 530–537.
2.Spiders of the Arid Southwest
3.Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae)
Cristina A. Rheims. 2015. ZooTaxa.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 10 September, 2004 - 4:49pm
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, Christopher Hunt, Jeff Hollenbeck, Mandy Howe, Laura P.
Last updated 30 April, 2016 - 1:33pm

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