Orthonops

Orthonops is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1924.[2]

Orthonops
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Caponiidae
Genus: Orthonops
Chamberlin, 1924[1]
Type species
O. overtus
Chamberlin, 1924
Species

9, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains nine species in the southwest United States and Mexico:[1]

  • Orthonops gertschi Chamberlin, 1928 – USA
  • Orthonops giulianii Platnick, 1995 – USA
  • Orthonops icenoglei Platnick, 1995 – USA, Mexico
  • Orthonops iviei Platnick, 1995 – USA
  • Orthonops johnsoni Platnick, 1995 – USA
  • Orthonops lapanus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940 – USA
  • Orthonops ovalis (Banks, 1898) – Mexico
  • Orthonops overtus Chamberlin, 1924 (type) – Mexico
  • Orthonops zebra Platnick, 1995 – USA

References

  1. "Gen. Orthonops Chamberlin, 1924". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. Chamberlin, R. V. (1924). "The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 12: 561–694.


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