Biology:Styposis

From HandWiki
Short description: Genus of spiders

Styposis
Temporal range: Neogene– Present
Styposis.selis.male.svg
male S. selis
Styposis.rancho.eye.pattern.svg
Eye pattern of S. rancho
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Styposis
Simon, 1894[1]
Type species
S. flavescens
Simon, 1894
Species

14, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Cyatholipulus Petrunkevitch, 1930[2]

Styposis is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.[3] It is a senior synonym of Cyatholipulus.[2]

They are unpigmented, small spiders, usually measuring less than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long. Comb-footed spiders usually have eight eyes, but most species have six large eyes, with the anterior median eyes extremely small or absent entirely. Members of Comaroma also have six eyes, but also have a large colulus and are less sclerotized.[4]

Species

(As of June 2020) it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, South America, the Congo, the United States , and Puerto Rico:[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). Gen. Styposis Simon, 1894. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3545. Retrieved 2020-07-14. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Brignoli, P. M. (1980). "Some new or interesting eastern Mediterranean Dysderidae and Agelenidae (Araneae)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 35: 731. 
  3. Simon, E (1894) (in fr). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51973. 
  4. Levi, H. W. (1960). "The spider genus Styposis (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 66 (1–2): 13–19. doi:10.1155/1959/68145. http://psyche2.entclub.org/articles/66/66-013.pdf. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q3501352 entry