Stephanopis

Stephanopis is a genus of crab spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.[2] The genus Stephanopis was erected for five newly described species, including S. altifrons, from Australia.[3] Stephanopis was characterized by the high cephalic region with unequally sized anterior eyes (ALE larger than AME) disposed in a strongly recurved row, opisthosoma ending in several spiniform projections and dorsoventrally depressed habitus.[4] According to Pickard-Cambridge, the single specimen used for the description of S. altifrons was dry-pinned. Therefore the specimen could not be properly examined, so it was not possible to determine if the specimen was adult. Moreover, he states his own sketch of the spider as “hasty”. This may explain why the somatic characters were inadequately described, genitalic features were not mentioned at all, and the illustrations were not detailed enough, making the species unidentifiable.[5]

Stephanopis
S. altifrons
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Stephanopis
Pickard-Cambridge[1]
Type species
Stephanopis altifrons
Species

60, see text

Species

As of 2017, it the following species:[1]

  • Stephanopis acanthogastra Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis ahenea Soares & Soares, 1946
  • Stephanopis altifrons O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
  • Stephanopis angulata Rainbow, 1899
  • Stephanopis antennata Tullgren, 1902
  • Stephanopis armata L. Koch, 1874
  • Stephanopis aruana Thorell, 1881
  • Stephanopis aspera Rainbow, 1893
  • Stephanopis badia Keyserling, 1880
  • Stephanopis barbipes Keyserling, 1890
  • Stephanopis bella Soares & Soares, 1946
  • Stephanopis bicornis L. Koch, 1874
  • Stephanopis borgmeyeri Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis bradleyi Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis cambridgei Thorell, 1870
  • Stephanopis championi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900)
  • Stephanopis cheesmanae Berland, 1938
  • Stephanopis clavata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
  • Stephanopis colatinae Soares & Soares, 1946
  • Stephanopis corticalis L. Koch, 1876
  • Stephanopis cristipes Kulczyński, 1911
  • Stephanopis depressa Bradley, 1871
  • Stephanopis ditissima (Nicolet, 1849)
  • Stephanopis elongata Bradley, 1871
  • Stephanopis erinacea Karsch, 1878
  • Stephanopis exigua (Nicolet, 1849)
  • Stephanopis fissifrons Rainbow, 1920
  • Stephanopis furcillata Keyserling, 1880
  • Stephanopis hystrix Mello-Leitão, 1951
  • Stephanopis lata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
  • Stephanopis longimana Thorell, 1881
  • Stephanopis macleayi Bradley, 1871
  • Stephanopis macrostyla Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis malacostracea (Walckenaer, 1837)
  • Stephanopis maulliniana Mello-Leitão, 1951
  • Stephanopis minuta L. Koch, 1876
  • Stephanopis monticola Bradley, 1871
  • Stephanopis monulfi Chrysanthus, 1964
  • Stephanopis nigra O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
  • Stephanopis nodosa (Nicolet, 1849)
  • Stephanopis obtusifrons Rainbow, 1902
  • Stephanopis ornata L. Koch, 1876
  • Stephanopis palliolata Simon, 1908
  • Stephanopis parahybana Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis pentacantha Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis quimiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1942
  • Stephanopis quinquetuberculata (Taczanowski, 1872)
  • Stephanopis renipalpis Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis rufiventris Bradley, 1871
  • Stephanopis salobrensis Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis scabra L. Koch, 1874
  • Stephanopis secata (Walckenaer, 1805)
  • Stephanopis spissa (Nicolet, 1849)
  • Stephanopis stelloides (Walckenaer, 1837)
  • Stephanopis thomisoides Bradley, 1871
  • Stephanopis trilobata Mello-Leitão, 1929
  • Stephanopis tuberculata Bradley, 1871
  • Stephanopis verrucosa (Nicolet, 1849)
  • Stephanopis vilosa Rainbow, 1911
  • Stephanopis yulensis Thorell, 1881

References
  1. "Thomisidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneida, with characters of a new genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (3): 52–74.
  3. Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A., & Milledge, G. A. (2019). “On the Australian bark crab spider genus Stephanopis: taxonomic review and description of seven new species (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae).” Records of the Australian Museum, 71(6), 217–276.
  4. Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A., & Milledge, G. A. (2019). “On the Australian bark crab spider genus Stephanopis: taxonomic review and description of seven new species (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae).” Records of the Australian Museum, 71(6), 217–276.
  5. Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A., & Milledge, G. A. (2019). “On the Australian bark crab spider genus Stephanopis: taxonomic review and description of seven new species (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae).” Records of the Australian Museum, 71(6), 217–276.
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