title: Baalzebub (spider)
text: # Baalzebub (spider)
  
  Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986. Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of March 2020 it contains seven extant and one fossil species:
  
  * B. acutum Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
  * B. albonotatus (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
  * B. baubo Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
  * B. brauni (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
  * B. nemesis Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
  * B. rastrarius Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
  * B. youyiensis Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
  * ?†B. mesozoicum Penney 2014 - Vendée amber, France, Turonian later considered to be stem-Theridiosomatidae
  