Caponia

Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.

As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena, and breathe using two pairs of tracheae rather than book lungs. They are agile, nocturnal hunters, that hide by day in a variety of silk-lined retreats.

Species

it contains ten species:

• Caponia braunsi <small>Purcell, 1904</small> – South Africa
• Caponia capensis <small>Purcell, 1904</small> – South Africa, Mozambique
• Caponia chelifera <small>Lessert, 1936</small> – Mozambique
• Caponia forficifera <small>Purcell, 1904</small> – South Africa
• Caponia hastifera <small>Purcell, 1904</small> – South Africa, Mozambique
• Caponia karrooica <small>Purcell, 1904</small> – South Africa
• Caponia natalensis <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)</small> (type) – Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
• Caponia secunda <small>Pocock, 1900</small> – South Africa
• Caponia simoni <small>Purcell, 1904</small> – South Africa
• Caponia spiralifera <small>Purcell, 1904</small> – South Africa

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