Caponina

Caponina is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1892.[3]

Caponina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Caponiidae
Genus: Caponina
Simon, 1892[1]
Type species
C. testacea
Simon, 1892
Species

12, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Bruchnops Mello-Leitão, 1939[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains twelve species:[1]

  • Caponina alegre Platnick, 1994 – Brazil
  • Caponina cajabamba Platnick, 1994 – Peru
  • Caponina chilensis Platnick, 1994 – Chile
  • Caponina chinacota Platnick, 1994 – Colombia
  • Caponina longipes Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
  • Caponina notabilis (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
  • Caponina papamanga Brescovit & Sánchez-Ruiz, 2013 – Brazil
  • Caponina paramo Platnick, 1994 – Colombia
  • Caponina pelegrina Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
  • Caponina sargi F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Guatemala, Costa Rica
  • Caponina testacea Simon, 1892 (type) – St. Vincent
  • Caponina tijuca Platnick, 1994 – Brazil

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Caponina Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  2. Platnick, N. I. (1994). "A revision of the spider genus Caponina (Araneae, Caponiidae)". American Museum Novitates. 3100: 2.
  3. Simon, E. (1892). "On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 59 (4, for 1891): 549–575.


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