''Chorizopes'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871.
Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through
leaf litter
Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall, or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that has fallen to the ground. This detritus or dead organic material and its constituen ...
preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs.
The original name was "Chorizoopes", but the
emendation ''Chorizopes'' by
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...
is now protected by usage.
Species
it contains twenty-six species, most from
India
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and
China
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, with several others found in locations ranging from
Madagascar
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to
Japan
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Chorizopes albus''
Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China
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Chorizopes anjanes''
Tikader, 1965 – India
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Chorizopes antongilensis''
Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar
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Chorizopes calciope''
(Simon, 1895) – India
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Chorizopes casictones''
Kallal & Hormiga, 2019 – Madagascar
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Chorizopes congener''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India
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Chorizopes dicavus''
Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
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Chorizopes frontalis''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Chorizopes goosus''
Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
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Chorizopes kastoni''
Gajbe & Gajbe, 2004 – India
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Chorizopes khandaricus''
Gajbe, 2005 – India
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Chorizopes khanjanes''
Tikader, 1965 – India, China
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Chorizopes khedaensis''
Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
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Chorizopes longus''
Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China
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Chorizopes madagascariensis''
Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar
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Chorizopes mucronatus''
Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
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Chorizopes nipponicus''
Yaginuma, 1963 – China, Korea, Japan
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Chorizopes pateli''
Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
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Chorizopes quadrituberculata''
Roy, Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2014 – India
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Chorizopes rajanpurensis''
Mukhtar & Tahir, 2013 – Pakistan
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Chorizopes shimenensis''
Yin & Peng, 1994 – China
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Chorizopes stoliczkae''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India
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Chorizopes tikaderi''
Sadana & Kaur, 1974 – India
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Chorizopes trimamillatus''
Schenkel, 1963 – China
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Chorizopes tumens''
Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
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Chorizopes zepherus''
Zhu & Song, 1994 – China
References
Araneidae
Araneidae genera
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
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