Chiasmopes

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

Chiasmopes
C. lineatus
Scientific classification
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]

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. "Gen. Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. 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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