''Nops'' is a
genus
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of medium-sized
South America
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n,
Central America
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n, and
Caribbean
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spiders in the family
Caponiidae
Caponiidae is a family of ecribellate haplogyne spiders that are unusual in a number of ways. They differ from other spiders in lacking book lungs and having the posterior median spinnerets anteriorly displaced to form a transverse row with the a ...
, first described by
Alexander Macleay
Alexander Macleay (also spelt McLeay) MLC FLS FRS (24 June 1767 – 18 July 1848) was a leading member of the Linnean Society, a fellow of the Royal Society and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
Life
Macleay was born on Ro ...
in 1839.
It has a great richness on the Caribbean islands, and most mainland species are located in high proportion toward the Caribbean coast. It likely has a
neotropical distribution, though most species of South America are known only from the coast of Colombia and Venezuela, including the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire and Trinidad.
Monophyly
''Nops'' have subsegmeted tarsi, as well as two other leg characters often found in nopine genera: a ventral translucent keel on the anterior metatarsi and a translucent membrane between the anterior metatarsi and tarsi. These spiders can be distinguished from similar genera with these modifications by their elongated unpaired claw on the anterior legs, extending dorsally between the paired claws.
Species
it contains thirty-eight species plus one fossil in Dominican amber:
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Nops agnarssoni''
Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Puerto Rico
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Nops alexenriquei''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Nops amazonas''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Nops anisitsi''
Strand, 1909 – Paraguay
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Nops bahia''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Nops bellulus''
Chamberlin, 1916 – Peru
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Nops blandus''
(Bryant, 1942) – Virgin Is. (US and UK)
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Nops branicki''
(Taczanowski
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, 1874) – French Guiana
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Nops campeche''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica
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Nops coccineus''
Simon, 1892 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (St. Vincent)
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Nops enae''
Sánchez-Ruiz, 2004 – Cuba
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Nops ernestoi''
Sánchez-Ruiz, 2005 – Hispaniola (Dominican Rep.)
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Nops farhati''
Prosen, 1949 – Argentina
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Nops finisfurvus''
Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Virgin Is. (UK), Puerto Rico (Culebra Is.)
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Nops flutillus''
Chickering, 1967 – Curaçao
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Nops gertschi''
Chickering, 1967 – Hispaniola (Dominican Rep.)
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Nops glaucus''
Hasselt, 1887 – Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire)
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Nops guanabacoae
''Nops guanabacoae'' is a species of medium-sized caponiid spider with only two eyes and carapace uniformly orange. ''N. guanabacoae'' is the type species of genus Nops, more information on this article.Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2004) Current taxonomic ...
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MacLeay, 1839 (
type) – Cuba, Bahamas
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Nops hispaniola''
Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Rep.)
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Nops ipojuca''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Nops itapetinga''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Nops jaragua''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Dominican Rep.
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Nops largus''
Chickering, 1967 – Panama
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Nops maculatus''
Simon, 1893 – Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana
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Nops mathani''
Simon, 1893 – Brazil
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Nops meridionalis''
Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil
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Nops minas''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Nops navassa''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Navassa Is. (Haiti or USA)
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Nops nitidus''
Simon, 1907 – Brazil
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Nops pallidus''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Cuba
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Nops pocone''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Nops quito''
Dupérré, 2014 – Ecuador
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Nops siboney''
Sánchez-Ruiz, 2004 – Cuba
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Nops sublaevis''
Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
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Nops tico''
Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama
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Nops toballus''
Chickering, 1967 – Jamaica
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Nops ursumus''
Chickering, 1967 – Panama
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Nops variabilis''
Keyserling, 1877 – Colombia, Venezuela
Image gallery
File:Nops craneae.jpg, ''Nops craneae'' Chickering, carapace
File:Nops enae.jpg, ''Nops enae'' Sánchez-Ruiz
File:Nops guanabacoae eggsac.jpg, ''Nops guanabacoae'' MacLeay, female with egg sac
File:Nops guanabacoae2.jpg, ''Nops guanabacoae'' MacLeay, male
File:Nops claws.jpg, ''Nops guanabacoae'' MacLeay, claws on leg I
File:Nops tarsi.jpg, ''Nops guanabacoae'' MacLeay, tarso of leg I
File:Nops siboney.jpg, ''Nops siboney'' Sánchez-Ruiz, ventral view
References
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Caponiidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of the Caribbean
Arthropods of the Dominican Republic
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of South America