Josa (spider)

Josa is a genus of South American anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1891.^{[4][page needed]} It is a senior synonym of "Gayenella", "Haptisus", "Olbophthalmus",^[2] and "Pelayo".^[3]

Josa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Anyphaenidae
Genus:	Josa Keyserling, 1891[1]
Type species
J. lutea (Keyserling, 1878)
Species
15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Gayenella[2] Haptisus[2] Olbophthalmus[2] Pelayo[3]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species:^[1]

• Josa analis (Simon, 1897)—Venezuela
• Josa andesiana (Berland, 1913)—Ecuador
• Josa bryantae (Caporiacco, 1955)—Venezuela
• Josa calilegua Ramírez, 2003—Argentina
• Josa chazaliae (Simon, 1897)—Colombia
• Josa gounellei (Simon, 1897)—Brazil
• Josa keyserlingi (L. Koch, 1866)—Colombia, Brazil
• Josa laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)—Costa Rica
• Josa lojensis (Berland, 1913)—Ecuador
• Josa lutea (Keyserling, 1878)—Colombia, Ecuador
• Josa maura (Simon, 1897)—Venezuela
• Josa nigrifrons (Simon, 1897)—Mexico to Bolivia
• Josa personata (Simon, 1897)—Ecuador
• Josa riveti (Berland, 1913)—Ecuador, Bolivia
• Josa simoni (Berland, 1913)—Ecuador