Stephanopis

Stephanopis is a genus of crab spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge 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” or "dull". 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 <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania)
• Stephanopis angulata <small>Rainbow, 1899</small> – Papua New Guinea (New Guinea, New Britain)
• Stephanopis armata <small>L. Koch, 1874</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Stephanopis badia <small>Keyserling, 1880</small> – Colombia
• Stephanopis barbipes <small>Keyserling, 1890</small> – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania)
• Stephanopis bicornis <small>L. Koch, 1874</small> – Australia (South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania), Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.), Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• Stephanopis carcinoides <small>Machado, 2019</small> – Papua New Guinea (New Guinea), Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Stephanopis corticalis <small>L. Koch, 1876</small> – Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland)
• Stephanopis erinacea <small>Karsch, 1878</small> – Fiji
• Stephanopis exigua <small>(Nicolet, 1849)</small> – Chile
• Stephanopis fissifrons <small>Rainbow, 1920</small> – Australia (Lord Howe Is., New South Wales)
• Stephanopis flagellata <small>Machado, 2019</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Stephanopis hystrix <small>Mello-Leitão, 1951</small> – Chile
• Stephanopis lata <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869</small> – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Stephanopis lobata <small>L. Koch, 1874</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Stephanopis maulliniana <small>Mello-Leitão, 1951</small> – Chile
• Stephanopis monulfi <small>Chrysanthus, 1964</small> – Indonesia (New Guinea), Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
• Stephanopis nana <small>Machado, 2019</small> – Australia (Queensland)
• Stephanopis nigra <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania)
• Stephanopis spissa <small>(Nicolet, 1849)</small> – Chile
• Stephanopis squalida <small>Machado, 2019</small> – Australia (Queensland)
• Stephanopis thomisoides <small>Bradley, 1871</small> – Australia (Queensland)
• Stephanopis verrucosa <small>(Nicolet, 1849)</small> – Chile
• Stephanopis xiangzhouica <small>(Liu, 2022)</small> – China

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