Retiro (spider)

Retiro is a genus of South American and Central American spiders in the family Macrobunidae first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1915.^[2]

Retiro
Retiro sp. from Brazil
Retiro sp. from Colombia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Macrobunidae
Genus:	Retiro Mello-Leitão, 1915[1]
Type species
R. maculatus Mello-Leitão, 1915
Species
14, see text

Species

As of October 2025^[update], this genus includes fourteen species:^[1]

• Retiro crinitus (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela
• Retiro fulvipes (Simon, 1906) – Ecuador
• Retiro granadensis (Keyserling, 1878) – Colombia
• Retiro gratus (Bryant, 1948) – Dominican Republic
• Retiro lanceolatus (Vellard, 1924) – Brazil
• Retiro leonardi Rodríguez-Castro & Rodríguez, 2025 – Colombia
• Retiro maculatus Mello-Leitão, 1915 – Brazil (type species)
• Retiro nigronotatus Mello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil
• Retiro plagiatus (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela
• Retiro procerulus (Simon, 1906) – Ecuador
• Retiro quitensis (Simon, 1906) – Ecuador
• Retiro rhombifer (Simon, 1906) – Ecuador
• Retiro roberti (Reimoser, 1939) – Costa Rica
• Retiro sabatoi Rodríguez-Castro & Rodríguez, 2025 – Colombia