''Nilus'' is a
genus
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of
nursery web spiders that was first described by
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.
Species
it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and
India
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Nilus albocinctus''
(Doleschall Carl Ludwig Doleschall ( hu, Doleschall Lajos; sk, Karol Ľudovít Doležal; born 15 July 1827 – died 26 February 1859) was born in Vág-Újhely, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia), as the son of the theolo ...
, 1859) – India to Philippines
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Nilus curtus Nilus may refer to:
*Nilus (mythology), a Greek god, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, the god of the Nile River
*Nile, the river, known as ''Nilus'' in Latin
*Saint Nilus (disambiguation), multiple people
* Nilus Cabasilas (14th century), bishop of The ...
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O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (
type) – Africa
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Nilus decorata''
(Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India
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Nilus esimoni''
(Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar
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Nilus jayakari Nilus may refer to:
*Nilus (mythology), a Greek god, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, the god of the Nile River
*Nile, the river, known as ''Nilus'' in Latin
*Saint Nilus (disambiguation), multiple people
* Nilus Cabasilas (14th century), bishop of The ...
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( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman
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Nilus kolosvaryi Nilus may refer to:
*Nilus (mythology), a Greek god, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, the god of the Nile River
*Nile, the river, known as ''Nilus'' in Latin
*Saint Nilus (disambiguation), multiple people
* Nilus Cabasilas (14th century), bishop of The ...
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( Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa
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Nilus leoninus Nilus may refer to:
*Nilus (mythology), a Greek god, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, the god of the Nile River
*Nile, the river, known as ''Nilus'' in Latin
* Saint Nilus (disambiguation), multiple people
* Nilus Cabasilas (14th century), bishop of Th ...
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( Strand, 1916) – Madagascar
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Nilus majungensis''
(Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar
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Nilus margaritatus''
(Pocock Pocock is a surname, and may refer to:
*Andrew Pocock (born 1955), British High Commissioner to Nigeria
* Barbara Pocock, one of the candidates of the 2022 Australian federal election
* Bill Pocock (1884–1959), English footballer
* Blair Pocock ...
, 1898) – Central, South Africa
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Nilus massajae''
(Pavesi, 1883) – Africa
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Nilus paralbocinctus''
(Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos
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Nilus phipsoni''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – India to China, Indonesia
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Nilus pictus Nilus may refer to:
*Nilus (mythology), a Greek god, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, the god of the Nile River
*Nile, the river, known as ''Nilus'' in Latin
*Saint Nilus (disambiguation), multiple people
* Nilus Cabasilas (14th century), bishop of The ...
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( Simon, 1898) – West, Central Africa
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Nilus pseudoalbocinctus''
(Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) – India
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Nilus pseudojuvenilis''
(Sierwald, 1987) – Mozambique
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Nilus radiatolineatus''
(Strand, 1906) – Africa
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Nilus rossi Nilus may refer to:
*Nilus (mythology), a Greek god, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, the god of the Nile River
*Nile, the river, known as ''Nilus'' in Latin
*Saint Nilus (disambiguation), multiple people
* Nilus Cabasilas (14th century), bishop of The ...
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(Pocock, 1902) – Central, South Africa
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Nilus rubromaculatus''
( Thorell, 1899) – West, Central Africa
See also
*
List of Pisauridae species
References
Araneomorphae genera
Pisauridae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Australia
Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
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