Bifidocoelotes

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Agelenoidea

Familia: Agelenidae
Subfamilia: Coelotinae
Genus: Bifidocoelotes
Species: B. bifidus – B. elongatus – B. mammiformis – B. obscurus – B. primus – B. quadratus – B. tsoi
Name

Bifidocoelotes Wang, 2002

Type species: Coelotes bifida Wang, Tso & Wu, 2001
References
Primary references

Wang, X.P. 2002. A generic-level revision of the spider subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 269: 1-150. full aticle (PDF). Reference page.

Additional references

Li, S.Q. & Blick T. 2020. Bifidocoelotes tsoi, a new name to replace Bifidocoelotes bifidus (Araneae, Agelenidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29 (2): 118–118. DOI: 10.3969/j. issn.1005-9628.2020.02.009.Paywall. Reference page.
Liao, R.R., Wang, Z.W., Yin, H.Q. & Xu, X. 2022a. A review of the genus Bifidocoelotes Wang, 2002, with the description of three new species from China (Araneae, Agelenidae). Zootaxa 5222(2): 179–189. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5222.2.6. Paywall. Reference page.
Zhou, Y-C., Yuen, Y.L. & Zhang, Z-S. 2017. A new Bifidocoelotes species, with the description of the male of B. primus from Hong Kong, China (Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Zootaxa 4232(3): 429–436. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.3.11. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N.I. 2017. The World Spider Catalog, version 18. American Museum of Natural History.

Bifidocoelotes is a genus of East Asian funnel weavers first described by X. P. Wang in 2002.[1]
Species

As of December 2022 it contains six species:[2]

Bifidocoelotes elongatus Liao, Wang, Yin & Xu, 2022 — China
Bifidocoelotes mammiformis Liao, Wang, Yin & Xu, 2022 — China
Bifidocoelotes obscurus Zhou, Yuen & Zhang, 2017 — Hong Kong
Bifidocoelotes primus (Fox, 1937) — Hong Kong
Bifidocoelotes quadratus Liao, Wang, Yin & Xu, 2022 — China
Bifidocoelotes tsoi Li & Blick, 2020 — Taiwan

References

Wang, X. P. (2002). "A generic-level revision of the spider subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 269: 1–150. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)269<0001:AGLROT>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 83668330.
"Gen. Bifidocoelotes Wang, 2002". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 19 December 2022.