Chiasmopes

Chiasmopes is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by P. Pavesi in 1883.^[3]

Chiasmopes
C. lineatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883[1]
Species
4, see text
Synonyms[1]
Spencerella Pocock, 1898[2]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains four species, found only in Africa:^[1]

• Chiasmopes hystrix (Berland, 1922) – Ethiopia
• Chiasmopes lineatus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa
• Chiasmopes namaquensis (Roewer, 1955) – Namibia
• Chiasmopes signatus (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa

See also

• List of Pisauridae species