Chorizopes

Chorizopes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
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]

Name

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

Species

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 World Spider Catalog
  2. Platnick 2000

References

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