Macrinus (spider)

Macrinus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.^[2]

Macrinus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Macrinus Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
M. succineus Simon, 1887
Species
6, see text

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains six species, found in South America, the United States, and on Tobago:^[1]

• Macrinus bambuco Rheims, 2010 – Colombia
• Macrinus calypso Rheims, 2010 – Tobago
• Macrinus jaegeri Rheims, 2007 – Brazil
• Macrinus mohavensis (Fox, 1937) – USA
• Macrinus pollexensis (Schenkel, 1953) – Venezuela, Brazil
• Macrinus succineus Simon, 1887 (type) – Ecuador to Brazil

See also

• List of Sparassidae species