Styposis
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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.
[edit] Species
- Styposis ajo Levi, 1960 (USA)
- Styposis albula (Gertsch, 1960) (Guyana)
- Styposis camoteensis (Levi, 1967) (Juan Fernandez Is.)
- 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)
[edit] References
- Levi, H.W. (1959). The Spider Genus Styposis (Araneae: Theridiidae). Psyche 66:13-19. PDF (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license)
- Levi, H.W. (1964). The American Spiders of the Genera Styposis and Pholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche 71:32-40. PDF (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license)
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