Symposia Explained

Symposia is a genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.^[1]

Species

it contains six species in Venezuela and Colombia:^[2]

• Symposia bifurca Roth, 1967 – Venezuela
• Symposia columbiana Müller & Heimer, 1988 – Colombia
• Symposia dubiosa Roth, 1967 – Venezuela
• Symposia sexoculata Roth, 1967 – Venezuela
• Symposia silvicola Simon, 1898 (type) – Venezuela
• Symposia umbrosa Simon, 1898 – Venezuela

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1898. Description d'un nouveau genre sénoculé (Symposia) de la famille des agélénides (Arachn.). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 88–90. 1898. 10.5962/bhl.part.16844. free.
2. Gen. Symposia Simon, 1898. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-31. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.