Cispius (spider)
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Cispius
| image = Cispius_kimbius,_Pretoria,_a.jpg
| image_caption = C. kimbius in Pretoria
| authority = Simon, 1898
| type_species = C. variegatus
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1898
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 9, see text
| synonyms =
- Cispiomma Roewer, 1955{{cite journal| last=Blandin| first=P.| year=1978| title=Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines IX. Mise au point sur les genres Cispius Simon, 1898 et Charminus Thorell, 1899 (Araneae - Pisauridae - Pisaurinae)| journal=Revue Zoologique Africaine| volume=92| page=44}}
}}
Cispius is a genus of African nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1898| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=5–34| volume=42| author-link=Eugène Simon}}
Species
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains nine species, found only in Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Cispius Simon, 1898| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2396| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Cispius affinis Lessert, 1916 – East Africa
- Cispius bidentatus Lessert, 1936 – Central, East Africa
- Cispius kimbius Blandin, 1978 – South Africa
- Cispius maruanus (Roewer, 1955) – West, Central Africa
- Cispius problematicus Blandin, 1978 – Congo
- Cispius simoni Lessert, 1915 – East Africa
- Cispius strandi Caporiacco, 1947 – East Africa
- Cispius thorelli Blandin, 1978 – Congo
- Cispius variegatus Simon, 1898 (type) – Congo
See also
References
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