Xeropigo

Xeropigo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Xeropigo O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882[1]
Type species
X. tridentiger (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870)
Species
17, see text

Xeropigo is a genus of South American and Caribbean corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1882.[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains seventeen species:[1]

• Xeropigo aitatu Carvalho, Shimano, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2016 – Brazil
• Xeropigo brescoviti De Souza & Bonaldo, 2007 – Bolivia
• Xeropigo cajuina Carvalho, Shimano, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2016 – Brazil
• Xeropigo camilae De Souza & Bonaldo, 2007 – Brazil
• Xeropigo candango De Souza & Bonaldo, 2007 – Brazil
• Xeropigo canga Carvalho, Shimano, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2016 – Brazil
• Xeropigo cotijuba De Souza & Bonaldo, 2007 – Guiana, Brazil
• Xeropigo crispim Carvalho, Shimano, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2016 – Brazil
• Xeropigo oxente Carvalho, Shimano, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2016 – Brazil
• Xeropigo pachitea De Souza & Bonaldo, 2007 – Peru, Brazil
• Xeropigo perene De Souza & Bonaldo, 2007 – Peru, Brazil
• Xeropigo piripiri Carvalho, Shimano, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2016 – Brazil
• Xeropigo rheimsae De Souza & Bonaldo, 2007 – Brazil
• Xeropigo smedigari (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela, Trinidad
• Xeropigo tridentiger (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870) (type) – USA, Caribbean to Brazil, St. Helena
  • Xeropigo t. reichardti (Strand, 1916) – Cayman Is. (Grand Cayman)
• Xeropigo ufo Carvalho, Shimano, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2016 – Brazil

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Xeropigo O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1882). "On new genera and species of Araneidea". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 50 (3): 423–442. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x. hdl:2027/coo.31924018443543.