''Chorizopes'' is a
genus
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of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
O. Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider.
Life and work
Pickard-Cambridge was born in Blox ...
in 1871.
Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through
leaf litter
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preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs.
The original name was "Chorizoopes", but the
emendation
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* Emendation (textual), altering a word to make sense, e.g. when incomplete or assumed to have been copied incorrectly
* Emendation (zoology), altering the spelling of the ...
''Chorizopes'' by
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...
is now protected by usage.
Species
it contains twenty-six species, most from
India
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and
China
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, with several others found in locations ranging from
Madagascar
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to
Japan
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:
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Chorizopes albus''
Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China
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Chorizopes anjanes''
Tikader, 1965 – India
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Chorizopes antongilensis''
Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar
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Chorizopes calciope''
(Simon, 1895) – India
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Chorizopes casictones''
Kallal & Hormiga, 2019 – Madagascar
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Chorizopes congener
''Chorizopes'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through leaf litter preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs. The original ...
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O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India
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Chorizopes dicavus''
Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
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Chorizopes frontalis''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Chorizopes goosus''
Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
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Chorizopes kastoni''
Gajbe & Gajbe, 2004 – India
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Chorizopes khandaricus''
Gajbe, 2005 – India
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Chorizopes khanjanes''
Tikader, 1965 – India, China
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Chorizopes khedaensis''
Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
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Chorizopes longus''
Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China
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Chorizopes madagascariensis''
Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar
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Chorizopes mucronatus''
Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
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Chorizopes nipponicus''
Yaginuma, 1963 – China, Korea, Japan
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Chorizopes pateli''
Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
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Chorizopes quadrituberculata''
Roy, Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2014 – India
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Chorizopes rajanpurensis
''Chorizopes'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through leaf litter preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs. The original ...
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Mukhtar & Tahir, 2013 – Pakistan
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Chorizopes shimenensis
''Chorizopes'' is a genus of Araneidae, orb-weaver spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through leaf litter preying on other spiders ra ...
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Yin & Peng, 1994 – China
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Chorizopes stoliczkae''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India
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Chorizopes tikaderi''
Sadana & Kaur, 1974 – India
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Chorizopes trimamillatus''
Schenkel, 1963 – China
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Chorizopes tumens''
Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
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Chorizopes zepherus''
Zhu & Song, 1994 – China
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Asia
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