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}}

| synonyms_ref =

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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}}

See also

References

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Category:Araneomorphae genera

Category:Pisauridae

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