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Gnolus is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1879. Originally placed with the orb-weaving spiders, it was transferred to the pirate spiders in 1993, but moved back to orb-weaver family in 2012.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAraneidae
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Gnolus is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1879. Originally placed with the orb-weaving spiders, it was transferred to the pirate spiders in 1993, but moved back to orb-weaver family in 2012.

==Species== it contains six species, found in Argentina and Chile: Gnolus angulifrons Simon, 1896 – Chile, Argentina Gnolus blinkeni Platnick & Shadab, 1993 – Chile, Argentina Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849) (type) – Chile, Argentina Gnolus limbatus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile Gnolus spiculator (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina Gnolus zonulatus Tullgren, 1902 – Chile, Argentina

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