https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Nilus_%28spider%29 Nilus (spider) - Revision history 2026-08-17T14:11:32Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nilus_(spider)&diff=242634&oldid=prev ->Peter coxhead: Removing from Category:Spiders described in 1876 only for species – subcategory of "Species described in 1876" using Cat-a-lot 2020-09-07T08:34:00Z <p>Removing from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Spiders_described_in_1876&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Spiders described in 1876 (page does not exist)">Category:Spiders described in 1876</a> only for species – subcategory of &quot;Species described in 1876&quot; using <a href="/w/index.php?title=C:Help:Cat-a-lot&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="C:Help:Cat-a-lot (page does not exist)">Cat-a-lot</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}<br /> {{Automatic taxobox<br /> | taxon = Nilus<br /> | image = Nilus_curtus,_wyfie,_Pretoria,_d.jpg<br /> | image_caption = &#039;&#039;N. curtus&#039;&#039;<br /> | image2 = Fishing_Spider.JPG<br /> | image2_caption = &#039;&#039;N. albocinctus&#039;&#039;<br /> | authority = [[Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1876&lt;ref name=NMBE /&gt;<br /> | type_species = &#039;&#039;[[Nilus curtus|N. curtus]]&#039;&#039;<br /> | type_species_authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876<br /> | subdivision_ranks = Species<br /> | subdivision = 18, [[#Species|see text]]<br /> | synonyms = <br /> *&#039;&#039;Thalassius&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;[[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1885&lt;/small&gt;&lt;ref name=Jäge2011&gt;{{cite journal| last=Jäger| first=P.| year=2011| title=Revision of the spider genera &#039;&#039;Nilus&#039;&#039; O. Pickard-Cambridge 1876, &#039;&#039;Sphedanus&#039;&#039; Thorell 1877 and &#039;&#039;Dendrolycosa&#039;&#039; Doleschall 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae)| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3046| page=4}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> | synonyms_ref = &lt;ref name=NMBE /&gt;<br /> }}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Nilus&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; is a [[genus]] of [[Pisauridae|nursery web spiders]] that was first described by [[Octavius Pickard-Cambridge]] in 1876.&lt;ref name=Pick1876&gt;{{cite journal| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1876| title=Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=541–630| volume=44| issue=3| author-link=Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Species==<br /> {{as of|2019|06}} it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and [[India]]:&lt;ref name=NMBE&gt;{{cite web| title=Gen. Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2410| doi=10.24436/2}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus albocinctus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;([[Carl Ludwig Doleschall|Doleschall]], 1859)&lt;/small&gt; – India to Philippines<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus curtus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876&lt;/small&gt; ([[Type_species|type]]) – Africa<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus decorata]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Patel &amp; Reddy, 1990)&lt;/small&gt; – India<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus esimoni]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Sierwald, 1984)&lt;/small&gt; – Madagascar<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus jayakari]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;([[Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|F. O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1898)&lt;/small&gt; – Oman<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus kolosvaryi]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;([[Lodovico di Caporiacco|Caporiacco]], 1947)&lt;/small&gt; – Central, East, Southern Africa<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus leoninus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;([[Embrik Strand|Strand]], 1916)&lt;/small&gt; – Madagascar<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus majungensis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Strand, 1907)&lt;/small&gt; – Mayotte, Madagascar<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus margaritatus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;([[Reginald Innes Pocock|Pocock]], 1898)&lt;/small&gt; – Central, South Africa<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus massajae]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Pavesi, 1883)&lt;/small&gt; – Africa<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus paralbocinctus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Zhang, Zhu &amp; Song, 2004)&lt;/small&gt; – China, Laos<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus phipsoni]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)&lt;/small&gt; – India to China, Indonesia<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus pictus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;([[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1898)&lt;/small&gt; – West, Central Africa<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus pseudoalbocinctus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Sen, Saha &amp; Raychaudhuri, 2010)&lt;/small&gt; – India<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus pseudojuvenilis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Sierwald, 1987)&lt;/small&gt; – Mozambique<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus radiatolineatus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Strand, 1906)&lt;/small&gt; – Africa<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus rossi]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(Pocock, 1902)&lt;/small&gt; – Central, South Africa<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Nilus rubromaculatus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;([[Tamerlan Thorell|Thorell]], 1899)&lt;/small&gt; – West, Central Africa<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[List of Pisauridae species]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Taxonbar| from=Q2715825}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Araneomorphae genera]]<br /> [[Category:Pisauridae]]<br /> [[Category:Spiders of Africa]]<br /> [[Category:Spiders of Asia]]<br /> [[Category:Spiders of Australia]]<br /> [[Category:Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Pisauridae-stub}}</div> ->Peter coxhead