Biology:Scopoides
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Scopoides is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1989, found in Mexico and the United States.[1]
Two of the Chinese species originally part of this genus were moved to the newly described genus Platnickus in 2023, while the third was moved to genus Allozelotes.[2]
Species
As of October 2025[update], this genus includes twelve species:[3]
- Scopoides asceticus (Chamberlin, 1924) – Mexico
- Scopoides bryantae (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides cambridgei (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides catharius (Chamberlin, 1922) – United States (type species)
- Scopoides gertschi (Platnick, 1978) – United States
- Scopoides kastoni (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides naturalisticus (Chamberlin, 1924) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides nesiotes (Chamberlin, 1924) – United States, Mexico
- Scopoides ochraceus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
- Scopoides rostratus (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – Mexico
- Scopoides santiago (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – Mexico
- Scopoides tlacolula (Platnick & Shadab, 1976) – Mexico
References
- ↑ Platnick, N. I. (1989). "Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981". Journal of Arid Environments 17 (3): 358. doi:10.1016/S0140-1963(18)30893-0. Bibcode: 1989JArEn..17..358P.
- ↑ Liu, B. (2023). "Revision of the genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 from China, with description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". ZooKeys (1172): 203–215. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1172.105034.
- ↑ "Gen. Scopoides Platnick, 1989". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/980. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
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