Talanites

Talanites is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.^[4]

Talanites
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Talanites Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
T. fervidus Simon, 1893
Species
15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Drassyllochemmis Gertsch & Davis, 1936[2] Rachodrassus Chamberlin, 1922[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species:^[1]

• Talanites atscharicus Mcheidze, 1946 – Georgia, Kazakhstan
• Talanites captiosus (Gertsch & Davis, 1936) – Southern Texas,^[2] Mexico
• Talanites cavernicola Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
• Talanites dunini Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991 – Israel, Central Asia
• Talanites echinus (Chamberlin, 1922) – Southeastern United States^[5]
• Talanites exlineae (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – Southeastern United States^[5]
• Talanites fagei Spassky, 1938 – Azerbaijan, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia
• Talanites fervidus Simon, 1893 (type) – Egypt, Israel
• Talanites mikhailovi Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991 – Kazakhstan
• Talanites moodyae Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991 – California^[3]
• Talanites ornatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Egypt
• Talanites santschii Dalmas, 1918 – Tunisia
• Talanites strandi Spassky, 1940 – Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
• Talanites tibialis Caporiacco, 1934 – India, Pakistan
• Talanites ubicki Platnick & Ovtsharenko, 1991 – California^[3]