Gephyrota Explained

Gephyrota is a genus of running crab spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1932.^[1]

Species

it contains seven species, found only in Africa, Asia, and Queensland:^[2]

• Gephyrota candida (Simon, 1895) – Cambodia, Vietnam
• Gephyrota glauca (Jézéquel, 1966) – Ivory Coast, South Africa, Zimbabwe^[3]
• Gephyrota limbata (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Australia (Queensland)
• Gephyrota nigrolineata (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
• Gephyrota pudica (Simon, 1906) – India
• Gephyrota virescens (Simon, 1906) – Sri Lanka
• Gephyrota viridipallida (Schmidt, 1956) – Cameroon

See also

• List of Philodromidae species

Notes and References

1. Strand. E.. 1932. Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, III, IV. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā. 193–196. 4. Embrik_Strand.
2. Gen. Gephyrota Strand, 1932. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
3. iNaturalist: Gephyrota glauca https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/795883-Gephyrota-glauca Retrieved 2024-07-13.