Chorizopes

Chorizopes
Chorizopes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Subfamily: Araneinae
Tribe: Araneini
Genus: Chorizopes
O. P-Cambridge, 1870
Type species
Chorizoopes frontalis
O. P-Cambridge, 1870
Species

See text.

Diversity
24 species

Chorizopes is a genus of araneid spiders, with more than twenty described species. Most are found in India and China, with several others found in locations ranging from Madagascar to Japan.[1]

These spiders are found in leaf litter. Even though it belongs to the spider family commonly called Orb weavers, it does not spin webs, and instead preys on other spiders.[2]

Contents

Name

Although Pickard-Cambridge originally named the genus Chorizoopes, the emendation Chorizopes by Thorell is now protected by usage.[1]

Species

  • Chorizopes anjanes Tikader, 1965India
  • Chorizopes antongilensis Emerit, 1997Madagascar
  • Chorizopes bengalensis Tikader, 1975 — India, China
  • Chorizopes calciope (Simon, 1895) — India
  • Chorizopes congener O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 — India
  • Chorizopes dicavus Yin et al., 1990 — China
  • Chorizopes frontalis O. P.-Cambridge, 1870Sri Lanka to Sumatra
  • Chorizopes goosus Yin et al., 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 madagascariensis Emerit, 1997 — Madagascar
  • Chorizopes mucronatus Simon, 1895 — Sri Lanka
  • Chorizopes nipponicus Yaginuma, 1963 — China, Korea, Japan
  • Chorizopes orientalis Simon, 1909Vietnam
  • Chorizopes pateli Reddy & Patel, 1993 — India
  • Chorizopes shimenensis Yin & Peng, 1994 — China
  • Chorizopes stoliczkae O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 — India
  • Chorizopes tikaderi Sadana & Kaur, 1974 — India
  • Chorizopes trimamillatus Schenkel, 1963 — China
  • Chorizopes tumens Yin et al., 1990 — China
  • Chorizopes wulingensis Yin, Wang & Xie, 1994 — China
  • Chorizopes zepherus Zhu & Song, 1994 — China

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b World Spider Catalog
  2. ^ Platnick 2000

References

  • Platnick, Norman I. (2000): Book review: An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Journal of American Arachnology 29: 281-282. PDF
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.