Lauricius

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Lauricius | authority = Simon, 1888<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''L. hemicloeinus'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1888 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist |L. hemicloeinus|Simon, 1888 – Mexico |L. hooki|Gertsch, 1941 – USA }} }}

'''''Lauricius''''' is a genus of North American false wolf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1888.<ref name=Simo1888 /> {{as of|2019|09}} it contains two species, found in the United States and Mexico: ''L. hemicloeinus'' and ''L. hooki''.<ref name=wsc /> Originally placed with the sac spiders, it was transferred to the Zoropsidae in 1967.<ref name=Leht1967 />

==References== <references> <ref name="wsc">{{cite journal| title=Gen. Lauricius Simon, 1888| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-10-14| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3233| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> <ref name="Leht1967">{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| volume=4| page=243| author-link=Pekka_T._Lehtinen}}</ref> <ref name="Simo1888">{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1888| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=203–216| volume=8| issue=6| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}</ref> </references>

==External links== *[https://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/spiders/entelegynes2.html Information on ''Lauricius hooki'' found in New Mexico]

Category:Zoropsidae genera Category:Spiders of Mexico Category:Spiders of the United States Category:Zoropsidae Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon