Biology:Caponia
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Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.[1]
As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena, and breathe using two pairs of tracheae rather than book lungs. They are agile, nocturnal hunters, that hide by day in a variety of silk-lined retreats.[2]
Species
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male C. hastifera -
C. chelifera
As of September 2025[update] it contains ten species:[3]
- Caponia braunsi Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Caponia capensis Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique
- Caponia chelifera Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
- Caponia forficifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Caponia hastifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique
- Caponia karrooica Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Caponia natalensis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (type) – Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
- Caponia secunda Pocock, 1900 – South Africa
- Caponia simoni Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Caponia spiralifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
References
- ↑ Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7 (6): 193–195.
- ↑ Leroy, Astri; Leroy, John (2003). Spiders of Southern Africa. Struik. p. 83. ISBN 9781868729449. https://archive.org/details/spiderssoutherna00lero.
- ↑ Gen. Caponia Simon, 1887. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/482. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
External links
- {{Inaturalist taxon}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
Wikidata ☰ Q2709621 entry
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