Crossopriza Explained
Crossopriza is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[1]
Species
it contains twenty-four species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas, Germany and Micronesia:[2]
- Crossopriza dhofar Huber, 2022 – Oman
- Crossopriza ghul Huber, 2022 – Oman
- Crossopriza ibnsinai Huber, 2022 – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan
- Crossopriza illizi Huber, 2022 – Algeria
- Crossopriza johncloudsleyi Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten, 2001 – Yemen, Kenya
- Crossopriza kandahar Huber, 2022 – Afghanistan
- Crossopriza khayyami Huber, 2022 – Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan
- Crossopriza kittan Huber, 2022 – Oman
- Crossopriza lyoni (Blackwall, 1867) – Probably Africa and/or Asia. Introduced to the Americas, Germany, Australia, Micronesia
- Crossopriza maculipes (Spassky, 1934) – Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Crossopriza malegaon Huber, 2022 – India
- Crossopriza manakhah Huber, 2022 – Yemen
- Crossopriza miskin Huber, 2022 – Oman
- Crossopriza moqal Huber, 2022 – Yemen
- Crossopriza parsa Huber, 2022 – Iran
- Crossopriza pristina (Simon, 1890) (type) – Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen
- Crossopriza sahtan Huber, 2022 – Oman
- Crossopriza sanaa Huber, 2022 – Yemen
- Crossopriza semicaudata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Egypt, Chad, Sudan
- Crossopriza sengleti Huber, 2022 – Iran
- Crossopriza soudanensis Millot, 1941 – Mali, Burkina Faso
- Crossopriza srinagar Huber, 2022 – Pakistan, India
- Crossopriza surobi Huber, 2022 – Afghanistan
- Crossopriza tiwi Huber, 2022 – Oman
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Simon, E.. 1893. Histoire naturelle das araignées. 257–488. Paris 1. Eugène_Simon.
- 2022. Gen. Crossopriza Simon, 1893. 24 February 2022. World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
