Chinoscopus

Chinoscopus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.[2]

Chinoscopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Lyssomaninae
Genus: Chinoscopus
Simon, 1901[1]
Type species
C. gracilis
(Taczanowski, 1872)
Species

4, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains four species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:[1]

  • Chinoscopus ernsti (Simon, 1900) – Venezuela
  • Chinoscopus flavus (Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Panama, Colombia
  • Chinoscopus gracilis (Taczanowski, 1872) (type) – Ecuador, Brazil, French Guiana
  • Chinoscopus maculipes Crane, 1943 – Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chinoscopus Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Simon, E (1901). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.


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