Biology:Chiasmopes

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Chiasmopes
Pisauridae Chiasmopes lineatus IMG 9222s.jpg
C. lineatus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Chiasmopes
Pavesi, 1883[1]
Species

4, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Spencerella Pocock, 1898[2]

Chiasmopes is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by P. Pavesi in 1883.[3]

Species

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

  • Chiasmopes hystrix (Berland, 1922) – Ethiopia
  • Chiasmopes lineatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa
  • Chiasmopes namaquensis (Roewer, 1955) – Namibia
  • Chiasmopes signatus (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2394. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Blandin, P. (1974). "Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines I. Le problème de la définition des genres Perenethis L. Koch, 1878, Tetragonophthalma Karsch, 1878, Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883 et Maypacius Simon, 1898 (Araneae-Pisauridae-Pisaurinae)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 81: 311. 
  3. Pavesi, P. (1883). "Studi sugli aracnidi africani. III. Aracnidi del regno di Scioa e considerazioni sull'aracnofauna d'Abissinia". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 20: 1–105. 

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