''Olios'' is the largest genus of

huntsman spider Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting. They are also called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. Larger species sometim ...

s, containing 166 species. They are found throughout the world, with most species occurring in hot countries. The genus was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.

Description

They are small to large

Sparassidae Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting. They are also called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. Larger species sometim ...

, that have eight eyes in two partially straight rows. For the smaller species of this genus, they are usually light brown to brown with darker areas. Most larger species are darker, and some members of this genus may also be green. They are nocturnal hunters.

Habitat

As this genus is widespread, they are found in a large variety of habitats, from savannahs to rainforest. They are mainly found in vegetation, and rarely houses. They are sometimes shipped alongside fruit, but this is not a common occurrence. Huntsman spider Olios giganteus eating crane flies (1)

Huntsman spider Olios giganteus eating crane flies (1)

Species

it contains 166 species, according to the World Spider Catalogue: * '' Olios acolastus'' Thorell, 1890 — Sumatra * ''

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'' Schenkel, 1953 — Venezuela * '' Olios actaeon'' Pocock, 1899 — New Britain * '' Olios admiratus'' Pocock, 1901 — India * '' Olios alluaudi''

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, 1887 — Ivory Coast * '' Olios angolensis'' Jäger, 2020 — Angola * '' Olios argelasius''

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, 1805 — Mediterranean * '' Olios artemis'' Hogg, 1916 — New Guinea * '' Olios atomarius'' Simon, 1880 — Peru * ''

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'' Petrunkevitch, 1911 — Brazil * ''

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'' Mello-Leitão, 1918 — Brazil * ''

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'' Simon, 1880 — Zanzibar * ''

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'' Pocock, 1899 — Cameroon * ''

Olios baulnyi ''Olios'' is the largest genus of huntsman spiders, containing 166 species. They are found throughout the world, with most species occurring in hot countries. The genus was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837. Description T ...

'' Simon, 1874 — Morocco, Senegal, Sudan * ''

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'' Pocock, 1899 — Cameroon * '' Olios berlandi'' Roewer, 1951 — New Caledonia * '' Olios bhattacharjeei'' (Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007) — India * '' Olios bhavnagarensis''

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& Tikader, 1988 — India * '' Olios biarmatus'' Lessert, 1925 — South Africa * '' Olios brachycephalus''

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, 1938 — South Africa * '' Olios bungarensis'' Strand, 1913 — Sumatra * '' Olios canalae''

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, 1924 — New Caledonia * '' Olios canariensis'' Lucas, 1838 — Canary Islands * '' Olios caprinus'' Mello-Leitão, 1918 — Brazil * '' Olios chelifer'' Lawrence, 1937 — South Africa * '' Olios chubbi'' Lessert, 1923 — South Africa * '' Olios clarus'' Keyserling, 1880 — Mexico * '' Olios claviger'' Pocock, 1901 — South Africa * '' Olios coccineiventris'' Simon, 1880 — Moluccas, New Guinea * '' Olios coenobitus''

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, 1926 — Madagascar * '' Olios correvoni'' Lessert, 1921 — East Africa * '' Olios correvoni choupangensis'' Lessert, 1936 — Mozambique * '' Olios correvoni nigrifrons'' Lawrence, 1928 — Southern Africa * '' Olios crassus'' Banks, 1909 — Costa Rica * '' Olios croseiceps'' Pocock, 1898 — Malawi * '' Olios darlingi'' Pocock, 1901 — South Africa * '' Olios debalae'' (Biswas & Roy, 2005) - India * '' Olios debilipes'' Mello-Leitão, 1945 — Argentina * '' Olios denticulus'' Jäger, 2020 — Indonesia (Java) * '' Olios diao'' Jäger, 2012 — Laos, Cambodia * '' Olios digitatus'' Sun, Li & Zhang, 2011 — China * '' Olios discolorichelis'' Caporiacco, 1947 — Guyana * '' Olios durlaviae'' Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2005 — Bangladesh * '' Olios erraticus'' Fage, 1926 — Madagascar * '' Olios erroneus'' O. P.-Cambridge, 1890 — Guatemala to Venezuela * '' Olios extensus'' Berland, 1924 — New Caledonia * '' Olios faesi'' Lessert, 1933 — Angola * '' Olios fasciculatus'' Simon, 1880 — USA, Mexico * '' Olios fasciiventris'' Simon, 1880 — Zanzibar * '' Olios feldmanni'' Strand, 1915 — Cameroon * '' Olios ferox'' Thorell, 1892 — Indonesia or Australia * '' Olios fimbriatus'' Chrysanthus, 1965 — New Guinea * '' Olios flavens'' Nicolet, 1849 — Chile * '' Olios floweri'' Lessert, 1921 — Ethiopia, East Africa * '' Olios fonticola'' Pocock, 1902 — South Africa * '' Olios francoisi'' Simon, 1898 — Loyalty Islands * '' Olios freyi'' Lessert, 1929 — Congo * '' Olios fulvithorax'' Berland, 1924 — New Caledonia * '' Olios galapagoensis'' Banks, 1902 — Galapagos Islands * '' Olios gambiensis'' Jäger, 2020 — Gambia * '' Olios gaujoni (Simon, 1897) - Ecuador * '' Olios gentilis'' Karsch, 1879 — West Africa * '' Olios giganteus'' Keyserling, 1884 — USA, Mexico * '' Olios gravelyi'' Sethi & Tikader, 1988 — India * '' Olios hampsoni'' Pocock, 1901 — India * '' Olios hirtus'' Karsch, 1879 — Sri Lanka * '' Olios hoplites'' Caporiacco, 1941 — Ethiopia * '' Olios humboldtianus'' Berland, 1924 — New Caledonia * '' Olios igraya'' (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) - Philippines (Luzon) * '' Olios inaequipes'' Simon, 1890 — Sunda Islands * '' Olios insignifer'' Chrysanthus, 1965 — New Guinea * '' Olios insulanus'' Thorell, 1881 — Kei Islands * '' Olios jaenicke'' Jäger, 2012 — Laos * '' Olios jaldaparaensis''

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& Raychaudhuri, 2007 — India * '' Olios japonicus'' Jäger & Ono, 2000 — Ryukyu Islands * '' Olios kassenjicola'' Strand, 1916 — Central Africa * '' Olios kolosvaryi'' (Caporiacco, 1947) - Ethiopia * '' Olios kruegeri'' Simon, 1897 — South Africa * '' Olios kunzi'' Jäger, 2020 — Namibia, South Africa * '' Olios lacticolor'' Lawrence, 1952 — South Africa * '' Olios lamarcki'' Latreille, 1806 — Madagascar to Sri Lanka, India * '' Olios lepidus'' Vellard, 1924 — Brazil * '' Olios longipedatus'' Roewer, 1951 — Brazil * '' Olios longipes'' (Simon, 1884) — Sudan * '' Olios lucieni'' Jäger, 2020 — Ethiopia, Kenya * '' Olios lutescens'' Thorell, 1894 — Pakistan, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java * '' Olios machadoi'' Lawrence, 1952 — South Africa * '' Olios macroepigynus'' Soares, 1944 — Brazil * '' Olios maculatus'' Blackwall, 1862 — Brazil, West Indies * '' Olios mahabangkawitus'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines * '' Olios marshalli'' Pocock, 1898 — South Africa * '' Olios menghaiensis''

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, 1990 — China * '' Olios milleti'' Pocock, 1901 — India, Sri Lanka * '' Olios minensis'' Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil * '' Olios monticola'' Berland, 1924 — New Caledonia * '' Olios mordax'' O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 — Madagascar * '' Olios muang'' Jäger & Praxaysombath, 2009 — Laos * '' Olios mutabilis'' Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil * '' Olios mygalinus'' Doleschall, 1857 — Moluccas, New Guinea * '' Olios mygalinus cinctipes'' Merian, 1911 — Sulawesi * '' Olios mygalinus nigripalpis'' Merian, 1911 — Sulawesi * '' Olios nanningensis'' Hu & Ru, 1988 — China * '' Olios nentwigi'' Jäger, 2020 — Indonesia (Krakatau Is.) * '' Olios neocaledonicus'' Berland, 1924 — New Caledonia * '' Olios nigrifrons'' Simon, 1897 — Java * '' Olios nigriventris'' Taczanowski, 1872 — French Guiana * '' Olios oberzelleri'' Kritscher, 1966 — New Caledonia * '' Olios obesulus'' Pocock, 1901 — India * '' Olios obscurus'' Keyserling, 1880 — Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama * '' Olios obtusus'' F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 — Guatemala * '' Olios oubatchensis'' Berland, 1924 — New Caledonia * '' Olios paraensis'' Keyserling, 1880 — Brazil * '' Olios pellucidus'' Keyserling, 1880 — Peru * '' Olios perezi'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines * '' Olios peruvianus'' Roewer, 1951 — Peru * '' Olios pictus'' (Simon, 1885) - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, Saudi Arabia * '' Olios plumipes'' Mello-Leitão, 1937 — Brazil * '' Olios princeps'' Hogg, 1914 — New Guinea * '' Olios pulchripes'' Thorell, 1899 — Cameroon * '' Olios punctipes'' Simon, 1884 — India to Sumatra * '' Olios punctipes sordidatus'' Thorell, 1895 — Myanmar * '' Olios punjabensis'' Dyal, 1935 — Pakistan * '' Olios pusillus'' Simon, 1880 — Madagascar * '' Olios pyrozonis'' Pocock, 1901 — India * '' Olios quinquelineatus'' Taczanowski, 1872 — French Guiana * '' Olios roeweri'' Caporiacco, 1955 — Guyana * '' Olios rosettii'' Leardi, 1901 — India * '' Olios rotundiceps'' Pocock, 1901 — India * '' Olios rubripes'' Taczanowski, 1872 — French Guiana * '' Olios rubriventris'' Thorell, 1881 — Moluccas, New Guinea * '' Olios ruwenzoricus'' Strand, 1913 — Central Africa * '' Olios scalptor'' Jäger & Ono, 2001 — Taiwan * '' Olios senilis'' Simon, 1880 — India, Sri Lanka * '' Olios sericeus'' Kroneberg, 1875 — Georgia, Central Asiaa * '' Olios sherwoodi'' Lessert, 1929 — Congo * '' Olios similis'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890) - Guatemala * '' Olios simoni'' O. P.-Cambridge, 1890 — Guatemala * '' Olios sjostedti'' Lessert, 1921 — East Africa * '' Olios skwarrae'' Roewer, 1933 — Mexico * '' Olios somalicus'' Caporiacco, 1940 — Somalia * '' Olios spinipalpis'' Pocock, 1901 — South Africa * '' Olios stictopus'' Pocock, 1898 — South Africa * '' Olios stimulator'' Simon, 1897 — India * '' Olios strandi'' Kolosváry, 1934 — New Guinea * '' Olios suavis'' O. P.-Cambridge, 1876 — Israel, Egypt * '' Olios subadultus'' Mello-Leitão, 1930 — Brazil * '' Olios sulphuratus'' Thorell, 1899 — Cameroon * '' Olios sungaya'' (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) - Philippines (Mindanao) * '' Olios suung'' Jäger, 2012 — Laos * '' Olios sylvaticus'' Blackwall, 1862 — Brazil * '' Olios tamerlani'' Roewer, 1951 — New Guinea * '' Olios taprobanicus'' Strand, 1913 - Sri Lanka * '' Olios tarandus'' Simon, 1897 — India * '' Olios tener'' Thorell, 1891 — Pakistan, India, Myanmar * '' Olios tiantongensis''

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, 1996 — China * '' Olios tigrinus'' Keyserling, 1880 — Peru * '' Olios tikaderi'' Kundu, Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1999 — India * '' Olios triarmatus'' Lessert, 1936 — Mozambique * '' Olios trifurcatus'' Pocock, 1899 — Cameroon * '' Olios ventrosus'' Nicolet, 1849 — Chile * '' Olios vitiosus'' Vellard, 1924 — Brazil * '' Olios wroughtoni'' Simon, 1897 — India * '' Olios yucatanus'' Chamberlin, 1925 — Mexico * '' Olios zulu'' Simon, 1880 — South Africa

References

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