Chorizopes

Chorizopes is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871.[1] Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through leaf litter preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs.[2] The original name was "Chorizoopes", but the emendation Chorizopes by Tamerlan Thorell is now protected by usage.[3]

Chorizopes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Chorizopes
O. P-Cambridge, 1871
Type species
Chorizoopes frontalis
O. P-Cambridge, 1870
Species

26, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains twenty-six species, most from India and China, with several others found in locations ranging from Madagascar to Japan:[3]

  • Chorizopes albus Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China
  • Chorizopes anjanes Tikader, 1965 – India
  • Chorizopes antongilensis Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar
  • Chorizopes calciope (Simon, 1895) – India
  • Chorizopes casictones Kallal & Hormiga, 2019 – Madagascar
  • Chorizopes congener O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India
  • Chorizopes dicavus Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
  • Chorizopes frontalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Chorizopes goosus Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
  • Chorizopes kastoni Gajbe & Gajbe, 2004 – India
  • Chorizopes khandaricus Gajbe, 2005 – India
  • Chorizopes khanjanes Tikader, 1965 – India, China
  • Chorizopes khedaensis Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
  • Chorizopes longus Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China
  • Chorizopes madagascariensis Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar
  • Chorizopes mucronatus Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
  • Chorizopes nipponicus Yaginuma, 1963 – China, Korea, Japan
  • Chorizopes pateli Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
  • Chorizopes quadrituberculata Roy, Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2014 – India
  • Chorizopes rajanpurensis Mukhtar & Tahir, 2013 – Pakistan
  • Chorizopes shimenensis Yin & Peng, 1994 – China
  • Chorizopes stoliczkae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India
  • Chorizopes tikaderi Sadana & Kaur, 1974 – India
  • Chorizopes trimamillatus Schenkel, 1963 – China
  • Chorizopes tumens Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
  • Chorizopes zepherus Zhu & Song, 1994 – China

References

  1. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1871). "On some new genera and species of Araneida". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 38 (3, for 1870): 728–747.
  2. Platnick, Norman I. (2000). "Book review: An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia" (PDF). Journal of American Arachnology. 29: 281–282.
  3. "Gen. Chorizopes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
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