# Olbus

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Olbus
| authority = [Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1880<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[O. sparassoides](/source/Olbus_sparassoides)''
| type_species_authority = (Nicolet, 1849)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 5, see text
}}

'''''Olbus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [South America](/source/South_America)n [corinnid sac spiders](/source/Corinnidae) first described by [Eugène Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon) in 1880 as a [huntsman spider](/source/huntsman_spider).<ref name=Simo1880>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1880| title=Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides).| journal=Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux| pages=223–351| volume=34}}</ref> It was moved to the [sac spider](/source/Clubionidae) family in 1988,<ref name=Roth1988>{{cite journal| last=Roth| first=V. D.| year=1988| title=American Agelenidae and some misidentified spiders (Clubionidae, Oonopidae and Sparassidae) of E. Simon in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle| journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris| volume=10| pages=25–37| doi=10.5962/p.287495| s2cid=89218570| doi-access=free}}</ref> then to the [Corinnidae](/source/Corinnidae) in 2001.<ref name=Rami2001>{{cite journal| last1=Ramírez| first1=M. J.| last2=Lopardo| first2=L.| last3=Bonaldo| first3=A. B.| year=2001| title=A review of the Chilean spider genus Olbus, with notes on the relationships of the Corinnidae (Arachnida, Araneae)| journal=Insect Systematics & Evolution| volume=31| page=445}}</ref>

==Species==
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains five species, all found in [Chile](/source/Chile):<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Olbus Simon, 1880| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-21| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/564| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref>
*''[Olbus eryngiophilus](/source/Olbus_eryngiophilus)'' <small>Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001</small> – Chile
*''[Olbus jaguar](/source/Olbus_jaguar)'' <small>Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001</small> – Chile
*''[Olbus krypto](/source/Olbus_krypto)'' <small>Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001</small> – Chile
*''[Olbus nahuelbuta](/source/Olbus_nahuelbuta)'' <small>Ramírez, Lopardo & Bonaldo, 2001</small> – Chile
*''[Olbus sparassoides](/source/Olbus_sparassoides)'' <small>(Nicolet, 1849)</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Chile

==References==
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Category:Corinnidae genera
Category:Corinnidae
Category:Spiders of South America
Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
Category:Endemic spiders of Chile
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