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Coryssocnemis

Coryssocnemis is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.

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Coryssocnemis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Coryssocnemis
Simon, 18931
Type species
C. callaica
Simon, 1893
Species

14, see text

Coryssocnemis is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.2

Species

As of June 2019 it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, and on Trinidad:1

  • Coryssocnemis aripo Huber, 2000 – Trinidad
  • Coryssocnemis callaica Simon, 1893 (type) – Venezuela
  • Coryssocnemis clara Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
  • Coryssocnemis discolor Mello-Leitão, 1918 – Brazil
  • Coryssocnemis faceta Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
  • Coryssocnemis guatopo Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
  • Coryssocnemis iviei Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
  • Coryssocnemis lepidoptera Mello-Leitão, 1918 – Brazil
  • Coryssocnemis monagas Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
  • Coryssocnemis occulta Mello-Leitão, 1918 – Brazil
  • Coryssocnemis simla Huber, 2000 – Trinidad
  • Coryssocnemis tarsocurvipes (González-Sponga, 2003) – Venezuela
  • Coryssocnemis tigra Huber, 1998 – Honduras
  • Coryssocnemis viridescens Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador to Costa Rica
See also

See also

References

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Coryssocnemis Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Simon, E. (1892). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.