Nilus (spider)
Nilus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.Species
it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and India:
- Nilus albocinctus – India to Philippines
- Nilus curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 – Africa
- Nilus decorata – India
- Nilus esimoni – Madagascar
- Nilus jayakari – Oman
- Nilus kolosvaryi – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Nilus leoninus – Madagascar
- Nilus majungensis – Mayotte, Madagascar
- Nilus margaritatus – Central, South Africa
- Nilus massajae – Africa
- Nilus paralbocinctus – China, Laos
- Nilus phipsoni – India to China, Indonesia
- Nilus pictus – West, Central Africa
- Nilus pseudoalbocinctus – India
- Nilus pseudojuvenilis – Mozambique
- Nilus radiatolineatus – Africa
- Nilus rossi – Central, South Africa
- Nilus rubromaculatus – West, Central Africa
