Colopea Explained

Colopea is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the Stenochilidae family, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.^[1]

Species

it contains ten species, found in Asia, on Fiji, and in Papua New Guinea:^[2]

• Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar, Thailand
• Colopea lehtineni Zheng, Marusik & Li, 2009 – China
• Colopea malayana Lehtinen, 1982 – Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
• Colopea pusilla (Simon, 1893) (type) – Philippines
• Colopea romantica Lehtinen, 1982 – Bali
• Colopea silvestris Lehtinen, 1982 – New Guinea
• Colopea tuberculata Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Fiji
• Colopea unifoveata Lehtinen, 1982 – Borneo
• Colopea virgata Lehtinen, 1982 – Thailand, Vietnam
• Colopea xerophila Lehtinen, 1982 – New Guinea

See also

• List of Stenochilidae species

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1893. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Colopea Simon, 1893. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.