{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{For|the S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist|True Believers (comics)}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Battalus | image = | image_caption = | authority = Karsch, 1878<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''B. spinipes'' <small>Karsch, 1878</small> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 13, see text | synonyms = | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Battalus''''' is a genus of Australian corinnid sac spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1878.<ref name=Kars1878>{{cite journal| last=Karsch| first=F.| year=1878| title=Exotisch-araneologisches.| journal=Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften| pages=771–826| volume=51}}</ref> Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2015.<ref name=Rave2015>{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=2015| title=A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3958| issue=1| page=38| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3958.1.1| pmid=26249225}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains thirteen species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Battalus Karsch, 1878| website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2019-04-05| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/906}}</ref> *''Battalus adamparsonsi'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria) *''Battalus baehrae'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (South Australia) *''Battalus bidgemia'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Western Australia, Queensland) *''Battalus boolathana'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Western Australia) *''Battalus byrneae'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Tasmania) *''Battalus diadens'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria) *''Battalus helenstarkae'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (South Australia) *''Battalus microspinosus'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Western Australia, South Australia) *''Battalus rugosus'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Western Australia, South Australia) *''Battalus semiflavus'' <small>(Simon, 1896)</small> — Australia (Queensland) *''Battalus spinipes'' <small>Karsch, 1878</small> — Australia (Queensland) *''Battalus wallum'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *''Battalus zuytdorp'' <small>Raven, 2015</small> — Australia (Western Australia)
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