''Synotaxus'' is a
genus
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of
araneomorph spiders in the family Synotaxidae that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.
Originally placed with the
tangle web spiders, it was moved to the
monotypic family Synotaxidae in 2017.
Description
Spiders in this genus have a long, green abdomen, which extends to varying degrees beyond the spinnerets. The carapace is wide and flat, and they have long, delicate legs with the first being the longest.
The legs and body are both covered in long, fine setae.
The posterior lateral spinnerets bear enlarged aggregate gland spigots, and the male pedipalp has a stout patellar spur.
The palpal femur, patella and tibia bear strong, often greatly enlarged, macrosetae.
Species
it contains eleven species, found in South America,
Panama,
Costa Rica, and on
Trinidad:
* ''
Synotaxus bonaldoi''
Santos & Rheims, 2005 –
Brazil
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* ''
Synotaxus brescoviti''
Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
* ''
Synotaxus ecuadorensis''
Exline, 1950 – Costa Rica to Ecuador
* ''
Synotaxus itabaiana''
Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
* ''
Synotaxus jaraguari''
Souza, Brescovit & Araujo, 2017 – Brazil
* ''
Synotaxus leticia''
Exline & Levi, 1965 –
Colombia
* ''
Synotaxus longicaudatus''
( Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
* ''
Synotaxus monoceros''
(Caporiacco
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist.
Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On the mi ...
, 1947) –
Trinidad,
Guyana, Brazil
* ''
Synotaxus siolii''
Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
* ''
Synotaxus turbinatus''
Simon, 1895 (
type) – Panama to Ecuador
* ''
Synotaxus waiwai''
Agnarsson, 2003 – Guyana, Brazil,
Paraguay
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Habitat and Distribution
Spiders in this genus are found in the understory of wet forests in
South America
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, where they construct their webs between the leaves of trees or bushes, well above the forest floor.
References
Araneomorphae genera
Synotaxidae
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