- Chorizopes
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Chorizopes Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Suborder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Araneinae Tribe: Araneini Genus: Chorizopes
O. P-Cambridge, 1870Type species Chorizoopes frontalis
O. P-Cambridge, 1870Species 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]
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Name
Although Pickard-Cambridge originally named the genus Chorizoopes, the emendation Chorizopes by Thorell is now protected by usage.[1]
Species
- Chorizopes anjanes Tikader, 1965 — India
- Chorizopes antongilensis Emerit, 1997 — Madagascar
- 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, 1870 — Sri 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, 1909 — Vietnam
- 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
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.
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