Styposis Explained

Styposis is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.^[1] It is a senior synonym of Cyatholipulus.

They are unpigmented, small spiders, usually measuring less than long. Comb-footed spiders usually have eight eyes, but most species have six large eyes, with the anterior median eyes extremely small or absent entirely. Members of Comaroma also have six eyes, but also have a large colulus and are less sclerotized.^[2]

Species

it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, South America, the Congo, the United States, and Puerto Rico:^[3]

• Styposis ajo Levi, 1960 – USA
• Styposis albula (Gertsch, 1960) – Guyana
• Styposis camoteensis (Levi, 1967) – Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.)
• Styposis chickeringi Levi, 1960 – Panama
• Styposis clausis Levi, 1960 – USA to Colombia
• Styposis colorados Levi, 1964 – Ecuador
• Styposis flavescens Simon, 1894 (type) – Nicaragua to Venezuela
• Styposis kahuziensis Miller, 1970 – Congo
• Styposis lutea (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
• Styposis nicaraguensis Levi, 1960 – Nicaragua
• Styposis rancho Levi, 1960 – Venezuela
• Styposis scleropsis Levi, 1960 – Panama
• Styposis selis Levi, 1964 – Brazil
• Styposis tepus (Levi, 1967) – Chile

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

Further reading

• Levi. H. W.. 1964. The American spiders of the genera Styposis and Pholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 32–39. 71. 10.1155/1964/91242. free.
• Agnarsson. I.. 2006. A revision of the New World eximius lineage of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 453–593. 146. 4. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00213.x. free.
• Levi. H. W.. 1967. The theridiid spider fauna of Chile. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1–20. 136.

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. fr. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène_Simon.
2. Levi. H. W.. 1960. The spider genus Styposis (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 13–19. 66. 1–2. 10.1155/1959/68145. free.
3. Gen. Styposis Simon, 1894. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-14. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.