Ochyrocera

Ochyrocera
Ochyrocera varys
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Ochyroceratidae
Genus:	Ochyrocera Simon, 1892[1]
Type species
O. arietina Simon, 1892
Species
56, see text
Synonyms[1]
Ceruleocera Marples, 1955[2]

Ochyrocera is a genus of midget ground weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.[3]

Species

As of December 2021^[update] it contains 56 species, found mostly in the Neotropical realm[4] in the Caribbean, South America, Guatemala, Mexico, and on the Polynesian Islands:[1]

• Ochyrocera aragogue Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera arietina Simon, 1892 (type) – Cuba, St. Vincent
• Ochyrocera atlachnacha Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera bicolor González-Sponga, 2001 – Venezuela
• Ochyrocera brumadinho Brescovit & Cizauskas, 2018 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera cachote Hormiga, Álvarez-Padilla & Benjamin, 2007 – Hispaniola
• Ochyrocera caeruleoamethystina Lopez & Lopez, 1997 – French Guiana
• Ochyrocera callaina Dupérré, 2015 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera cashcatotoras Dupérré, 2015 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera charlotte Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera chiapas Valdez-Mondragón, 2009 – Mexico
• Ochyrocera coerulea (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Ochyrocera coffeeicola González-Sponga, 2001 – Venezuela
• Ochyrocera cornuta Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera corozalensis González-Sponga, 2001 – Venezuela
• Ochyrocera diablo Pérez-González, Rubio & Ramírez, 2016 – Argentina
• Ochyrocera dorinha (Brescovit, Zampaulo, Pedroso & Cizauskas, 2021) – Brazil
• Ochyrocera fagei Brignoli, 1974 – Mexico
• Ochyrocera formosa Gertsch, 1973 – Guatemala
• Ochyrocera garayae Castanheira, Pérez-González, do Prado & Baptista, 2019 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera hamadryas Brignoli, 1978 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera ibitipoca Baptista, González & Tourinho, 2008 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera italoi Dupérré, 2015 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera itatinga Castanheira, Pérez-González, do Prado & Baptista, 2019 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera janthinipes Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
• Ochyrocera jarocha Valdez-Mondragón, 2017 – Mexico
• Ochyrocera juquila Valdez-Mondragón, 2009 – Mexico
• Ochyrocera laracna Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera losrios Dupérré, 2015 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera machadoi (Gertsch, 1977) – Mexico
• Ochyrocera magali (Brescovit, Zampaulo, Pedroso & Cizauskas, 2021) – Brazil
• Ochyrocera minima González-Sponga, 2001 – Venezuela
• Ochyrocera minotaure Dupérré, 2015 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera misspider Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera monica (Brescovit, Zampaulo, Pedroso & Cizauskas, 2021) – Brazil
• Ochyrocera oblita Fage, 1912 – Venezuela
• Ochyrocera otonga Dupérré, 2015 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera peruana Ribera, 1978 – Peru
• Ochyrocera pojoj Valdez-Mondragón, 2017 – Mexico
• Ochyrocera quinquevittata Simon, 1892 – St. Vincent
• Ochyrocera ransfordi (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
• Ochyrocera rinocerotos Dupérré, 2015 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera ritxoco (Brescovit, Zampaulo & Cizauskas, 2021) – Brazil
• Ochyrocera ritxoo (Brescovit, Zampaulo & Cizauskas, 2021) – Brazil
• Ochyrocera rosinha (Brescovit, Zampaulo, Pedroso & Cizauskas, 2021) – Brazil
• Ochyrocera sandovalae Baert, 2014 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera simoni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 – Mexico
• Ochyrocera subparamera González-Sponga, 2001 – Venezuela
• Ochyrocera thibaudi Emerit & Lopez, 1985 – Lesser Antilles
• Ochyrocera tinocoi Castanheira, Pérez-González, do Prado & Baptista, 2019 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera ungoliant Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera varys Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera vesiculifera Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
• Ochyrocera viridissima Brignoli, 1974 – Brazil
• Ochyrocera zabaleta Dupérré, 2015 – Ecuador
• Ochyrocera zamora Baert, 2014 – Ecuador

See also

• List of Ochyroceratidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ochyrocera Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
2. Brignoli, P. M. (1979). "Ragni delle Filippine III. Su alcuni Ochyroceratidae (Araneae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 86: 598. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.82322.
3. Simon, E. (1892). "On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 59: 549–575.
4. Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro (2017). "On the poorly known haplogynae spiders of the genus Ochyrocera Simon (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Mexico: description of two new species with an updated identification key for Mexican species". Zootaxa. 4226 (2): 194–204. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4226.2.2. PMID 28187611.