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 name was "Chorizoopes", but the Chorizopes by Tamerlan Thorell is now protected by usage.
Species
it contains twenty-six species, most from India and China, with several others found in locations ranging from Madagascar to Japan:
- Chorizopes albus <small>Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016</small> â China
- Chorizopes anjanes <small>Tikader, 1965</small> â India
- Chorizopes antongilensis <small>Emerit, 1997</small> â Madagascar
- Chorizopes calciope <small>(Simon, 1895)</small> â India
- Chorizopes casictones <small>Kallal & Hormiga, 2019</small> â Madagascar
- Chorizopes congener <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885</small> â India
- Chorizopes dicavus <small>Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990</small> â China
- Chorizopes frontalis <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871</small> â Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Chorizopes goosus <small>Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990</small> â China
- Chorizopes kastoni <small>Gajbe & Gajbe, 2004</small> â India
- Chorizopes khandaricus <small>Gajbe, 2005</small> â India
- Chorizopes khanjanes <small>Tikader, 1965</small> â India, China
- Chorizopes khedaensis <small>Reddy & Patel, 1993</small> â India
- Chorizopes longus <small>Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016</small> â China
- Chorizopes madagascariensis <small>Emerit, 1997</small> â Madagascar
- Chorizopes mucronatus <small>Simon, 1895</small> â Sri Lanka
- Chorizopes nipponicus <small>Yaginuma, 1963</small> â China, Korea, Japan
- Chorizopes pateli <small>Reddy & Patel, 1993</small> â India
- Chorizopes quadrituberculata <small>Roy, Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2014</small> â India
- Chorizopes rajanpurensis <small>Mukhtar & Tahir, 2013</small> â Pakistan
- Chorizopes shimenensis <small>Yin & Peng, 1994</small> â China
- Chorizopes stoliczkae <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885</small> â India
- Chorizopes tikaderi <small>Sadana & Kaur, 1974</small> â India
- Chorizopes trimamillatus <small>Schenkel, 1963</small> â China
- Chorizopes tumens <small>Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990</small> â China
- Chorizopes zepherus <small>Zhu & Song, 1994</small> â China
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