''Chiasmopes'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
nursery web spiders that was first described by P. Pavesi in 1883.
Species
it contains four species, found only in Africa:
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Chiasmopes hystrix''
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, 1922) – Ethiopia
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Chiasmopes lineatus''
( Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa
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Chiasmopes namaquensis''
( Roewer, 1955) – Namibia
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Chiasmopes signatus''
(Pocock, 1902) – South Africa
See also
*
List of Pisauridae species
References
Araneomorphae genera
Pisauridae
Spiders of Africa
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