Chiasmopes is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by P. Pavesi in 1883.[3]
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| C. lineatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pisauridae |
| Genus: | Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883[1] |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Species edit
As of June 2019[update] it contains four species, found only in Africa:[1]
- Chiasmopes hystrix (Berland, 1922) – Ethiopia
- Chiasmopes lineatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Chiasmopes namaquensis (Roewer, 1955) – Namibia
- Chiasmopes signatus (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c "Gen. Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Blandin, P. (1974). "Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines I. Le problème de la définition des genres Perenethis L. Koch, 1878, Tetragonophthalma Karsch, 1878, Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883 et Maypacius Simon, 1898 (Araneae-Pisauridae-Pisaurinae)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 81: 311.
- ^ Pavesi, P. (1883). "Studi sugli aracnidi africani. III. Aracnidi del regno di Scioa e considerazioni sull'aracnofauna d'Abissinia". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 20: 1–105.