Nilus (spider)

Nilus is a genus 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:
 * Nilus albocinctus (Doleschall, 1859) – India to Philippines
 * Nilus curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) – Africa
 * Nilus decorata (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India
 * Nilus esimoni (Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar
 * Nilus jayakari (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman
 * Nilus kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa
 * Nilus leoninus (Strand, 1916) – Madagascar
 * Nilus majungensis (Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar
 * Nilus margaritatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, South Africa
 * Nilus massajae (Pavesi, 1883) – Africa
 * Nilus paralbocinctus (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos
 * Nilus phipsoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – India to China, Indonesia
 * Nilus pictus (Simon, 1898) – West, Central Africa
 * Nilus pseudoalbocinctus (Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) – India
 * Nilus pseudojuvenilis (Sierwald, 1987) – Mozambique
 * Nilus radiatolineatus (Strand, 1906) – Africa
 * Nilus rossi (Pocock, 1902) – Central, South Africa
 * Nilus rubromaculatus (Thorell, 1899) – West, Central Africa