Janula

Janula is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1932.^[3] It is a senior synonym of Monetoculus.^[2]

Janula
J. bicornis from Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Janula Strand, 1932[1]
Type species
J. bicornis (Thorell, 1881)
Species
44, see text
Synonyms[1]
Monetoculus Wunderlich, 2008[2]

Species

As of September 2022^[update] it contains forty-four species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Panama, and Queensland:^[1]

• Janula aspus (Levi, 1964) – Nicaragua
• Janula batman Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
• Janula bicornigera (Simon, 1894) – Brazil
• Janula bicornis (Thorell, 1881) (type) – Australia (Queensland)
• Janula bicruciata (Simon, 1895) – Brazil
• Janula bifrons (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
• Janula bizona Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
• Janula bruneiensis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
• Janula bubalis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
• Janula chiapensis (Levi, 1955) – Mexico, Costa Rica (Cocos Is.)
• Janula colima (Levi, 1955) – Mexico to Panama
• Janula crysus (Buckup & Marques, 1992) – Brazil
• Janula cuzco (Levi, 1967) – Peru
• Janula dominica (Levi, 1955) – Hispaniola
• Janula erythrophthalma (Simon, 1894) – Panama, Lesser Antilles to Bolivia
• Janula flores E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
• Janula itaqui E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
• Janula jimmyi (Chavari & Brescovit, 2014) – Colombia
• Janula juarezi (Levi, 1955) – Mexico
• Janula luteolimbata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
• Janula lutzenbergeri E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
• Janula malachina (Simon, 1895) – Peru, Brazil
• Janula mamiraua E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
• Janula manauara E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
• Janula marginata (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
• Janula modesta (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
• Janula moyobamba (Levi, 1964) – Peru
• Janula nadleri (Levi, 1955) – Bahama Is., Jamaica
• Janula nebulosa (Simon, 1895) – Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
• Janula ocreata (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
• Janula panamensis (Levi, 1955) – Panama
• Janula parva (Wunderlich, 2008) – Malaysia
• Janula picta (Simon, 1895) – Singapore
• Janula pimenta E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
• Janula pyrus (Levi, 1964) – Panama
• Janula salobrensis (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil
• Janula seguro E. N. L. Rodrigues, 2022 – Brazil
• Janula taprobanica (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
• Janula teresopolis (Levi, 1964) – Brazil
• Janula triangularis Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Thailand, Singapore, Brunei (Borneo)
• Janula triocellata Yoshida & Koh, 2011 – Borneo
• Janula unitus (Levi, 1964) – Cuba, Jamaica
• Janula vaticus (Levi, 1964) – Costa Rica, Panama
• Janula zurlus (Levi, 1964) – Venezuela

See also

• List of Theridiidae species