''Stemmops'' is a

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of comb-footed spiders that was first described by

Octavius 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 from a large collection that he made with contrib ...

in 1894.

Species

it contains twenty-seven species, found mostly in

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, though several species occur in east Asia: *'' Stemmops belavista'' Marques & Buckup, 1996 –

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*'' Stemmops bicolor'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 (

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) – USA to Panama,

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, Bahama Is. *'' Stemmops cambridgei''

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, 1955 –

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*'' Stemmops carajas'' Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil *'' Stemmops caranavi'' Marques & Buckup, 1996 –

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*'' Stemmops carauari'' Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil *'' Stemmops carius'' Marques & Buckup, 1996 – Brazil *'' Stemmops concolor'' Simon, 1898 – St. Vincent *'' Stemmops cryptus'' Levi, 1955 –

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*'' Stemmops forcipus'' Zhu, 1998 –

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*'' Stemmops guapiacu'' Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil *'' Stemmops lina'' Levi, 1955 – Mexico *'' Stemmops mellus'' Levi, 1964 – Panama *'' Stemmops murici'' Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil *'' Stemmops nigrabdomenus'' Zhu, 1998 – China, Laos *'' Stemmops nipponicus'' Yaginuma, 1969 –

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(Far East), China,

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*'' Stemmops ornatus'' (Bryant, 1933) – USA *'' Stemmops orsus'' Levi, 1964 – Panama, Brazil *'' Stemmops osorno'' (Levi, 1963) –

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

*'' Stemmops pains'' Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil *'' Stemmops questus'' Levi, 1955 – Mexico to Venezuela *'' Stemmops salenas'' Marques & Buckup, 1996 – Brazil *'' Stemmops satpudaensis'' Rajoria, 2015 –

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*'' Stemmops servus'' Levi, 1964 – Panama, Brazil *'' Stemmops subtilis'' (Simon, 1895) –

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*'' Stemmops vicosa'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *'' Stemmops victoria'' Levi, 1955 – Mexico In

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: *''S. darlingtoni'' Bryant, 1940 = ''Stemmops bicolor'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 *''S. orniceps'' (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) = ''Stemmops ornatus'' (Bryant, 1933)

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