Sillus

This article is about the genus of spiders. For the forest creatures of Greek mythology, see Cercopes.

Sillus is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1900.^[2]

Sillus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Anyphaenidae
Genus:	Sillus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900[1]
Type species
S. attiguus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)
Species
10, see text

Species

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

• Sillus attiguus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) — Mexico
• Sillus curvispina F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 — Panama
• Sillus delicatus Mello-Leitão, 1922 — Brazil
• Sillus dubius (Chickering, 1937) — Panama
• Sillus furciger Caporiacco, 1954 — French Guiana
• Sillus imbecillus (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
• Sillus longispina F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 — Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama
• Sillus lunula F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 — Guatemala
• Sillus pellucidus (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
• Sillus ravus Chickering, 1940 — Panama