''Stephanopis'' is a genus of

crab spiders The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of th ...

first described by

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an England, English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider. Life and wor ...

in 1869. It was erected for five then newly described species, including ''S. altifrons'', from Australia. ''Stephanopis'' was characterized by the high cephalic region with unequally sized anterior eyes (ALE larger than AME) disposed in a strongly recurved row, opisthosoma ending in several spiniform projections and dorsoventrally depressed habitus. According to Pickard-Cambridge, the single specimen used for the description of ''S. altifrons'' was dry-pinned. Therefore the specimen could not be properly examined, so it was not possible to determine if the specimen was adult. Moreover, he states his own sketch of the spider as “hasty”. This may explain why the somatic characters were inadequately described, genitalic features were not mentioned at all, and the illustrations were not detailed enough, making the species unidentifiable.

Species

, it contained 24 species: *'' Stephanopis altifrons'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania) *'' Stephanopis angulata'' Rainbow, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Guinea, New Britain) *'' Stephanopis armata'' L. Koch, 1874 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *'' Stephanopis badia'' Keyserling, 1880 – Colombia *'' Stephanopis barbipes'' Keyserling, 1890 – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania) *'' Stephanopis bicornis'' L. Koch, 1874 – Australia (South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania), Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.), Indonesia (Aru Is.) *'' Stephanopis carcinoides'' Machado, 2019 – Papua New Guinea (New Guinea), Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *'' Stephanopis corticalis'' L. Koch, 1876 – Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland) *'' Stephanopis erinacea'' Karsch, 1878 – Fiji *'' Stephanopis exigua'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' Stephanopis fissifrons'' Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Lord Howe Is., New South Wales) *'' Stephanopis flagellata'' Machado, 2019 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *'' Stephanopis hystrix'' Mello-Leitão, 1951 – Chile *'' Stephanopis lata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania) *'' Stephanopis lobata'' L. Koch, 1874 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *'' Stephanopis maulliniana'' Mello-Leitão, 1951 – Chile *'' Stephanopis monulfi'' Chrysanthus, 1964 – Indonesia (New Guinea), Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland) *'' Stephanopis nana'' Machado, 2019 – Australia (Queensland) *'' Stephanopis nigra'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania) *'' Stephanopis spissa'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' Stephanopis squalida'' Machado, 2019 – Australia (Queensland) *'' Stephanopis thomisoides'' Bradley, 1871 – Australia (Queensland) *'' Stephanopis verrucosa'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' Stephanopis xiangzhouica'' (Liu, 2022) – China

References

Thomisidae Thomisidae genera Spiders of Asia Spiders of Oceania Spiders of South America Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge {{thomisidae-stub