Chiasmopes
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Chiasmopes
| image = Pisauridae_Chiasmopes_lineatus_IMG_9222s.jpg
| image_caption = C. lineatus
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, see text
| synonyms =
- Spencerella Pocock, 1898{{cite journal| last=Blandin| first=P.| year=1974| title=Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines I. Le problème de la définition des genres Perenethis L. Koch, 1878, Tetragonophthalma Karsch, 1878, Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883 et Maypacius Simon, 1898 (Araneae-Pisauridae-Pisaurinae)| journal=Revue suisse de Zoologie| volume=81| page=311| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.76005| doi-access=free}}
}}
Chiasmopes is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by P. Pavesi in 1883.{{cite journal| last=Pavesi| first=P.| year=1883| title=Studi sugli aracnidi africani. III. Aracnidi del regno di Scioa e considerazioni sull'aracnofauna d'Abissinia| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=1–105| volume=20}}
Species
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains four species, found only in Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2394| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Chiasmopes hystrix (Berland, 1922) – Ethiopia
- Chiasmopes lineatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Chiasmopes namaquensis (Roewer, 1955) – Namibia
- Chiasmopes signatus (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa
See also
References
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