Genus of spiders
Styposis is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.[ 3] It is a senior synonym of Cyatholipulus .[ 2]
They are unpigmented, small spiders, usually measuring less than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long. Comb-footed spiders usually have eight eyes, but most species have six large eyes, with the anterior median eyes extremely small or absent entirely. Members of Comaroma also have six eyes, but also have a large colulus and are less sclerotized.[ 4]
Species
As of June 2020[update] it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, South America, the Congo , the United States , and Puerto Rico :[ 1]
Styposis ajo Levi , 1960 – USA
Styposis albula (Gertsch , 1960) – Guyana
Styposis camoteensis (Levi, 1967) – Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.)
Styposis chickeringi Levi, 1960 – Panama
Styposis clausis Levi, 1960 – USA to Colombia
Styposis colorados Levi, 1964 – Ecuador
Styposis flavescens Simon, 1894 (type ) – Nicaragua to Venezuela
Styposis kahuziensis Miller, 1970 – Congo
Styposis lutea (Petrunkevitch , 1930) – Puerto Rico
Styposis nicaraguensis Levi, 1960 – Nicaragua
Styposis rancho Levi, 1960 – Venezuela
Styposis scleropsis Levi, 1960 – Panama
Styposis selis Levi, 1964 – Brazil
Styposis tepus (Levi, 1967) – Chile
See also
References
^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Styposis Simon, 1894" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. doi :10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-07-14 .
^ a b Brignoli, P. M. (1980). "Some new or interesting eastern Mediterranean Dysderidae and Agelenidae (Araneae)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa . 35 : 731.
^ Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi :10.5962/bhl.title.51973 .
^ Levi, H. W. (1960). "The spider genus Styposis (Araneae, Theridiidae)" (PDF) . Psyche: A Journal of Entomology . 66 (1–2): 13–19. doi :10.1155/1959/68145 .
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