Sipalolasma

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Sipalolasma

| authority = Simon, 1892

| type_species = S. ellioti

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1892

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 9, see text

| synonyms =

  • Cyclopelma Benoit, 1965{{cite journal| last=Benoit| first=P. L. G.| year=1965| title=Etudes sur les Barychelidae du Centre Africain (Araneae - Orthognatha) II. - Leptopelmatinae nouveaux| journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines| volume=71| page=302}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Sipalolasma is a genus of brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1892.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1892| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| url=https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell01simo| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973}} It is restricted to South Asia and parts of Africa.{{cite journal |last1=Javed |first1=S.M.M. |first2=R.J. |last2=Raven |first3=F. |last3=Tampal |first4=K.T. |last4=Rao |date=2010 |title=Occurrence and redescription of Sipalolasma arthrapophysis (Gravely, 1915) (Araneae: Barychelidae: Barychelinae) from India |journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa |volume=2 |issue=5 |pages=867–875 |url=http://threatenedtaxa.org/ZooPrintJournal/2010/May/o238726v10867-875.pdf |access-date=2016-04-15 |name-list-style=amp |doi=10.11609/jott.o2387.867-75|doi-access=free }}

Species

{{as of|2019|04}} it contains nine species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Sipalolasma Simon, 1892| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-05-17| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/470| doi=10.24436/2}}

References