{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Simonestus | authority = Bonaldo, 2000<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''S. validus'' | type_species_authority = (Simon, 1898) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 6, see text }}
'''''Simonestus''''' is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by A. B. Bonaldo in 2000.<ref name=Bona2000>{{cite journal| last=Bonaldo| first=A. B.| year=2000| title=Taxonomia da subfamília Corinninae (Araneae, Corinnidae) nas regiões Neotropica e Neárctica.| journal=Iheringia, Série Zoologia| pages=3–148| volume=89| issue=89| doi=10.1590/S0073-47212000000200001| doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains six species in the Americas:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Simonestus Bonaldo, 2000| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-22| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/593| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Simonestus occidentalis'' <small>(Schenkel, 1953)</small> – Venezuela *''Simonestus pseudobulbulus'' <small>(Caporiacco, 1938)</small> – Guatemala *''Simonestus robustus'' <small>(Chickering, 1937)</small> – Panama *''Simonestus semiluna'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)</small> – Mexico, Guatemala *''Simonestus separatus'' <small>(Schmidt, 1971)</small> – Guatemala to Peru *''Simonestus validus'' <small>(Simon, 1898)</small> (type) – Venezuela
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Corinnidae Category:Spiders of North America Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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