Asianopis Explained

Asianopis is a genus of Asian net-casting spiders first described by Y. J. Lin, L. Shao and A. Hänggi in 2020.

Species

it contains thirty-three species:

• Asianopis anchietae (Brito Capello, 1867) – West Africa, Angola, South Africa
• Asianopis aruensis (Roewer, 1938) – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• Asianopis aspectans (Pocock, 1900) – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, South Africa
• Asianopis aurita (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico
• Asianopis camela (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Asianopis celebensis (Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Asianopis cornigera (Gerstaecker, 1873) – Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, South Africa
• Asianopis cylindrica (Pocock, 1898) – Mozambique, South Africa
• Asianopis dumogae (Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Asianopis fasciata (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland)
• Asianopis fasciculigera (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
• Asianopis giltayi (Lessert, 1930) – Congo
• Asianopis goalparaensis (Tikader & Malhotra, 1978) – India, Nepal
• Asianopis guineensis (Berland & Millot, 1940) – Guinea
• Asianopis kollari (Doleschall, 1859) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Ambon)
• Asianopis konplong (Logunov, 2018) – Vietnam
• Asianopis labangan (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2018) – Philippines
• Asianopis liukuensis (Yin, Griswold & Yan, 2002) – India, China
• Asianopis longipalpula (Strand, 1913) – Central Africa
• Asianopis luzonensis (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2018) – Philippines
• Asianopis madagascariensis (Lenz, 1886) – Madagascar
• Asianopis mediocris (Kulczyński, 1908) – New Guinea
• Asianopis ornata (Pocock, 1902) – Ethiopia
• Asianopis ravida (L. Koch, 1878) – Australia (Queensland)
• Asianopis reticulata (Rainbow, 1899) – New Guinea
• Asianopis schomburgki (Karsch, 1878) – Australia (South Australia)
• Asianopis schoutedeni (Giltay, 1929) – Congo
• Asianopis subrufa (L. Koch, 1878) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania), New Zealand
• Asianopis tabida (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland)
• Asianopis unicolor (L. Koch, 1878) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Asianopis wangi Lin & Li, 2020 – China (Hainan)
• Asianopis wuchaoi Lin & Li, 2020 – China
• Asianopis zhuanghaoyuni Lin & Li, 2020 – China

See also

• Deinopis
• List of Deinopidae species

Further reading

• Lin. Y. J.. Mikhailov. K. G.. Jäger. P.. etal. 2020. Arthropoda Selecta. Notes on two Asian species of the spider family Deinopidae (Aranei). 29. 4. 467–469. 10.15298/arthsel.29.4.08. 234538189. free.
• Basumatary. P.. Caleb. J. T. D.. Das. S.. etal. 2020. Arthropoda Selecta. Redescription of the net-casting spider Asianopis goalparaensis (Tikader et Malhotra, 1978) comb.n. (Araneae: Deinopidae) from India. 29. 3. 325–329. 10.15298/arthsel.29.3.04. 226221386. free.
• Caleb. J. T. D.. 2019. Zootaxa. The Indian net-casting spider name Deinopis goalparaensis Tikader & Malhotrais a nomen dubium (Araneae: Deinopidae). 4668. 1. 148–150. 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.1.12. 31716647. 203354332.
• Logunov. D. V.. 2018. Arthropoda Selecta. A new ogre-faced spider species of the genus Deinopis MacLeay, 1839 from Vietnam (Aranei: Deinopidae). 27. 2. 139–142. 10.15298/arthsel.27.2.05. 182039445. free.