Chorizopes

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Chorizopes
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Chorizopes

Type species
Chorizoopes frontalis
O. P-Cambridge, 1870
Species

See text.

Diversity
24 species

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Chorizopes is a genus of araneid spiders, with more than twenty described species. Most are found in India and China, with several others found in locations ranging from Madagascar to Japan.[1]

These spiders are found in leaf litter. Even though it belongs to the spider family commonly called Orb weavers, it does not spin webs, and instead preys on other spiders.[2]

Name

Although Pickard-Cambridge originally named the genus Chorizoopes, the emendation Chorizopes by Thorell is now protected by usage.[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 World Spider Catalog
  2. Platnick 2000

References

  • Platnick, Norman I. (2000): Book review: An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Journal of American Arachnology 29: 281-282. PDF
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

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