Styposis

Taxobox
name = "Styposis"


image_caption = male "S. selis"
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Theridiidae
genus = "Styposis"
genus_authority = Simon, 1894
diversity_link = List of Theridiidae species#Styposis
diversity = 14 species
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

Spiders in the genus "Styposis" are small and unpigmented with fairly long legs, and measure less than 2mm in total.

Most species have six large eyes, unlike most spiders of the family Theridiidae, which have eight eyes. The anterior median eyes are always absent or minute. The genus differs from the otherwise similar genus "Archerius", which also has six eyes, by lacking the large colulus and by being less sclerotized.

pecies

* "Styposis ajo" Levi, 1960 — USA
* "Styposis albula" (Gertsch, 1960) — Guyana
* "Styposis camoteensis" (Levi, 1967) — Juan Fernandez Islands
* "Styposis chickeringi" Levi, 1960 — Panama
* "Styposis clausis" Levi, 1960 — USA to Colombia
* "Styposis colorados" Levi, 1964 — Ecuador
* "Styposis flavescens" Simon, 1894 — Nicaragua to Venezuela
* "Styposis kahuziensis" Miller, 1970 — Congo
* "Styposis lutea" (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
* "Styposis nicaraguensis" Levi, 1960 — Nicaragua
* "Styposis rancho" Levi, 1960 — Venezuela
* "Styposis scleropsis" Levi, 1960 — Panama
* "Styposis selis" Levi, 1964 — Brazil
* "Styposis tepus" (Levi, 1967) — Chile

References

* (1959): The Spider Genus "Styposis" (Araneae: Theridiidae). "Psyche" 66: 13-19. [http://psyche2.entclub.org/articles/66/66-013.pdf PDF]
* (1964): The American Spiders of the Genera "Styposis" and "Pholcomma" (Araneae, Theridiidae). "Psyche" 71: 32-40. [http://psyche2.entclub.org/articles/71/71-032.pdf PDF]
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

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