Chinoscopus

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Chinoscopus

| authority = Simon, 1901

| type_species = C. gracilis

| type_species_authority = (Taczanowski, 1872)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 4, see text

}}

Chinoscopus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1901| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | location=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}}

Species

{{as of|2019|06}} it contains four species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Chinoscopus Simon, 1901| 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/2576| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

Chinoscopus ernsti (Simon, 1900) – Venezuela
Chinoscopus flavus (Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Panama, Colombia
Chinoscopus gracilis (Taczanowski, 1872) (type) – Ecuador, Brazil, French Guiana
Chinoscopus maculipes Crane, 1943 – Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador

References

External links

[http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/chinosco/graci-ph.htm Photographs of C. gracilis]

Category:Salticidae

Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Spiders of South America