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''Campostichomma'' is a genus of spiders in the family
Udubidae Udubidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, most of whose members were formerly placed in the family Zorocratidae, which is no longer accepted. Phylogeny A study investigating the phylogenetic relationships of lycosoid spiders concluded that t ...
native to
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...
. Many of its species were moved to either ''
Griswoldia ''Griswoldia'' is a genus of southern African Zoropsidae, false wolf spiders. It was first described by A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman and Rudy Jocqué in 1997, and it has only been found in South Africa. Species it contains twelve species: *''Griswol ...
'' or ''
Devendra Devendra () is a common Indian given name, Indian masculine given name. It comes from Sanskrit ' 'chief of the gods', which has been used as an epithet of the historical Vedic religion, Vedic god Indra. Notable people with the name include: *D ...
.'' This genus was originally placed in the family
Agelenidae The Agelenidae are a large family of spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae. Well-known examples include the common "grass spiders" of the genus ''Agelenopsis''. Nearly all Agelenidae are harmless to humans, but the bite of the hobo spider (''Era ...
. It was moved to
Miturgidae Miturgidae is a family of araneomorph spiders that includes nearly 170 species in 29 genera worldwide. First described by Eugène Simon in 1886, it has been substantially revised, and includes the previous family Zoridae as a synonym, and exclude ...
in 1967, to
Zoropsidae Zoropsidae, also known as false wolf spiders for their physical similarity to wolf spiders, is a family of cribellate araneomorph spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1882. They can be distinguished from wolf spiders by their two row ...
in 1999, then to Udubidae in 2015.


Species

The
World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...
accepts four species, : *'' Campostichomma alawala'' Polotow & Griswold, 2017 – Sri Lanka *'' Campostichomma harasbedda'' Polotow & Griswold, 2017 – Sri Lanka *'' Campostichomma manicatum'' Karsch, 1892 (
type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
) – Sri Lanka *'' Campostichomma mudduk'' Polotow & Griswold, 2017 – Sri Lanka


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q968968 Spiders of Asia Udubidae Araneomorphae genera Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch