Genus of spiders
Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[ 2] Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves. [ 3]
As of March 2020[update] it contains seven extant and one fossil species:[ 1]
B. acutum Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
B. albonotatus (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
B. baubo Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
B. brauni (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
B. nemesis Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
B. rastrarius Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
B. youyiensis Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
?†B. mesozoicum Penney 2014 - Vendée amber, France, Turonian [ 4] later considered to be stem-Theridiosomatidae [ 5]
^ a b c "Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986" . World Spider Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09 .
^ Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 422 (422): 1–96. doi :10.5479/si.00810282.422 .
^ Prete, Pedro; Cizaukas, Igor; Brescovit, Antonio. "A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves" . Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment .
^ "A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France" . Paleontological Contributions . 2014-12-01. doi :10.17161/pc.1808.15982 . hdl :1808/15982 . ISSN 1946-0279 .
^ Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Azevedo, Guilherme H. F.; Michalik, Peter; Ramírez, Martín J. (February 2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic" . Biological Reviews . 95 (1): 184–217. doi :10.1111/brv.12559 . ISSN 1464-7931 . PMID 31713947 . S2CID 207937170 .
"Baalzebub" at the Encyclopedia of Life