Chorizopes is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871.[1] Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through leaf litter preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs.[2] The original name was "Chorizoopes", but the emendation Chorizopes by Tamerlan Thorell is now protected by usage.[3]
| Chorizopes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Chorizopes O. P-Cambridge, 1871 |
| Type species | |
| Chorizoopes frontalis O. P-Cambridge, 1870
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Species edit
As of April 2019[update] it contains twenty-six species, most from India and China, with several others found in locations ranging from Madagascar to Japan:[3]
- Chorizopes albus Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China
- Chorizopes anjanes Tikader, 1965 – India
- Chorizopes antongilensis Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar
- Chorizopes calciope (Simon, 1895) – India
- Chorizopes casictones Kallal & Hormiga, 2019 – Madagascar
- Chorizopes congener O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India
- Chorizopes dicavus Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
- Chorizopes frontalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Chorizopes goosus Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 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 longus Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China
- Chorizopes madagascariensis Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar
- Chorizopes mucronatus Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
- Chorizopes nipponicus Yaginuma, 1963 – China, Korea, Japan
- Chorizopes pateli Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
- Chorizopes quadrituberculata Roy, Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2014 – India
- Chorizopes rajanpurensis Mukhtar & Tahir, 2013 – Pakistan
- Chorizopes shimenensis Yin & Peng, 1994 – China
- Chorizopes stoliczkae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India
- Chorizopes tikaderi Sadana & Kaur, 1974 – India
- Chorizopes trimamillatus Schenkel, 1963 – China
- Chorizopes tumens Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
- Chorizopes zepherus Zhu & Song, 1994 – China
References edit
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1871). "On some new genera and species of Araneida". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 38 (3, for 1870): 728–747.
- ^ Platnick, Norman I. (2000). "Book Review: An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 29 (2): 281–282. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0281:BR]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 198160093.
- ^ a b "Gen. Chorizopes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
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