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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Speciesbox
| taxon = Hostus paroculus
| authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1898
| parent_authority = Simon, 1898<ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''''Hostus''''' is a [[monotypic taxon|monotypic]] [[genus]] of Malagasy [[Oxyopidae|lynx spiders]] containing the single species, '''''Hostus paroculus'''''. It was first described by [[Eugène Simon|Eugène Louis Simon]] in 1898,<ref name=Simo1898>{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1898| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}}</ref> and is only found on [[Madagascar]].<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Hostus Simon, 1898| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-04| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2215| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of Oxyopidae species]]
==References==
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[[Category:Monotypic Araneomorphae genera]]
[[Category:Oxyopidae]]
[[Category:Spiders of Madagascar]]
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