Steriphopus is a genus of palp-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.[2]
| Steriphopus | |
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| Male Steriphopus macleayi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Palpimanidae |
| Genus: | Steriphopus Simon, 1887[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. macleayi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)
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| Species | |
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5, see text | |
Species
editAs of June 2024[update] it contains five species, found only in Asia, Sri Lanka, India and on the Seychelles:[1]
- Steriphopus benjamini Zonstein & Marusik, 2023 – India
- Steriphopus crassipalpis Tamerlan Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
- Steriphopus lacertosus Simon, 1898 – Seychelles
- Steriphopus macleayi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 (type) – Sri Lanka
- Steriphopus wangala Kadam,Tripathi & Sankaran, 2024 – India
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Steriphopus Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Simon, E. (1887). "Etudes arachnologiques. 19e Mémoire. XXVII. Arachnides recueillis à Assinie (Afrique occidentale) par MM. Chaper et Alluaud". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 261–276.
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