Urozelotes

Urozelotes is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.^[2]

Urozelotes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Urozelotes Mello-Leitão, 1938[1]
Type species
U. rusticus (L. Koch, 1872)
Species
5, see text

Species

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

• Urozelotes kabenge FitzPatrick, 2005 – Zambia
• Urozelotes mysticus Platnick & Murphy, 1984 – Italy
• Urozelotes patulusus Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018 – India
• Urozelotes rusticus (L. Koch, 1872) (type) – Both Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia. Native area unknown, probably Old World.
• Urozelotes trifidus Tuneva, 2003 – France, Russia (Europe)

References

1. "Gen. Urozelotes Mello-Leitão, 1938". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1938). "Algunas arañas nuevas de la Argentina". Revista del Museo de la Plata. New Series. 1: 89–118.^{[clarification needed]}