Holopelus Explained

Holopelus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.^[1]

Species

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

• Holopelus albibarbis Simon, 1895 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), South Africa
• Holopelus almiae Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1986 – South Africa
• Holopelus bufoninus Simon, 1886 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Holopelus crassiceps (Strand, 1913) – Central Africa
• Holopelus irroratus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
• Holopelus malati Simon, 1895 – India
• Holopelus piger O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Sri Lanka

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• Dippenaar-Schoeman. A. S.. 1986. The crab-spiders of southern Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). 7. The genus Holopelus Simon, 1886. Phytophylactica. 187–190. 18.
• Simon. E.. 1907. Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 218–323. 43.
• Simon. E.. 1895. Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Thomisidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 432–443. 39.
• Dippenaar-Schoeman. A. S.. 1989. The crab spiders of southern Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). 8. The genus Thomisops Karsch, 1879. Phytophylactica. 319–330. 21.

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1886. Espèces et genres nouveaux de la famille des Thomisisdae. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 167–187. 40. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Holopelus Simon, 1886. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-10-10. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.