title: Gnolus
text: # Gnolus
  
  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
  
  As of March 2020 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
  
  In synonymy:
  
  * G. affinis Tullgren, 1902 = Gnolus cordiformis (Nicolet, 1849)
  