Biology:Cynapes

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Cynapes
Cynapes baptizatus pt168.jpg
C. baptizatus from Rodrigues
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Cynapes
Simon, 1900[1]
Type species
C. wrighti
(Blackwall, 1877)
Species

4, see text

Cynapes is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2]

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains four species, found only in Africa:[1]

  • Cynapes baptizatus (Butler, 1876)Mauritius (Rodriguez)
  • Cynapes canosus Simon, 1900 – Mauritius
  • Cynapes lineatus (Vinson, 1863) – Réunion, Mauritius
  • Cynapes wrighti (Blackwall, 1877) (type) – Seychelles

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Cynapes Simon, 1900. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2605. Retrieved 2019-07-06. 
  2. Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381–407. 

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