Styposis

Styposis is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894. It is a senior synonym of Cyatholipulus.

They are unpigmented, small spiders, usually measuring less than long. Comb-footed spiders usually have eight eyes, but most species have six large eyes, with the anterior median eyes extremely small or absent entirely. Members of Comaroma also have six eyes, but also have a large colulus and are less sclerotized.

Species

it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, South America, the Congo, the United States, and Puerto Rico:

• Styposis ajo <small>Levi, 1960</small> – USA
• Styposis albula <small>(Gertsch, 1960)</small> – Guyana
• Styposis camoteensis <small>(Levi, 1967)</small> – Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.)
• Styposis chickeringi <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Panama
• Styposis clausis <small>Levi, 1960</small> – USA to Colombia
• Styposis colorados <small>Levi, 1964</small> – Ecuador
• Styposis flavescens <small>Simon, 1894</small> (type) – Nicaragua to Venezuela
• Styposis kahuziensis <small>Miller, 1970</small> – Congo
• Styposis lutea <small>(Petrunkevitch, 1930)</small> – Puerto Rico
• Styposis nicaraguensis <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Nicaragua
• Styposis rancho <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Venezuela
• Styposis scleropsis <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Panama
• Styposis selis <small>Levi, 1964</small> – Brazil
• Styposis tepus <small>(Levi, 1967)</small> – Chile

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