Box kite spider
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Box kite spiders
| image = Isoxya tabulata, Krantzkloof Natuurreservaat, e.jpg
| image_caption = I. tabulata
| image2 = Isoxya cicatricosa00.jpg
| image2_caption = I. cicatricosa
| taxon = Isoxya
| authority = Simon, 1885
| subdivision = 16, see text
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| type_species = I. cicatricosa
| type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1844)
}}
Box kite spiders (Isoxya) is a genus of Afrotropical orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1885. Like the spiny orb-weavers they have six prominent (but short) spines on their abdomen. They are small spiders, measuring {{convert|3|to|7|mm}} across.{{cite web| last=Larsen| first=Norman| title=Isoxya (box kite spiders)| url=http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/arachnids/spiders/araneidae/isoxya.htm| work=biodiversity explorer| publisher=iziko museums| accessdate=2013-06-17| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329164835/http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/arachnids/spiders/araneidae/isoxya.htm|archivedate=29 March 2013}} They have a sclerotised (or porcelain-like) abdomen which is typical of the Gasteracanthinae.
Species
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains sixteen species:{{cite web| title=Gen. | website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2019-05-13| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/335}}
- Isoxya basilewskyi Benoit & Emerit, 1975 – Rwanda, Congo
- Isoxya cicatricosa (C. L. Koch, 1844) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Yemen
- Isoxya cowani (Butler, 1883) – Madagascar
- Isoxya mahafalensis Emerit, 1974 – Madagascar
- Isoxya milloti Emerit, 1974 – Madagascar
- Isoxya mossamedensis Benoit, 1962 – Angola
- Isoxya mucronata (Walckenaer, 1841) – Central, Southern Africa
- Isoxya nigromutica (Caporiacco, 1939) – East Africa
- Isoxya penizoides Simon, 1887 – West, Central, East Africa
- Isoxya reuteri (Lenz, 1886) – Madagascar
- Isoxya semiflava Simon, 1887 – West, Central Africa
- Isoxya somalica (Caporiacco, 1940) – Somalia
- Isoxya stuhlmanni (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Isoxya tabulata (Thorell, 1859) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Isoxya testudinaria (Simon, 1901) – West, Central, East Africa
- Isoxya yatesi Emerit, 1973 – South Africa
References
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External links
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Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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