Caponia
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Caponiidae |
| Genus: | Caponia Simon, 1887[1] |
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(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)
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Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.[2] As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly-arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena, and breathe using two pairs of tracheae rather than book lungs. They are agile, nocturnal hunters, that hide by day in a variety of silk-lined retreats.[3]
Species[]
As of April 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]
- Strand, 1908 – Ethiopia
- Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique
- Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
- Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique
- Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (type) – Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
- Pocock, 1900 – South Africa
- Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Caponia Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ^ Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.
- ^ Leroy, Astri; Leroy, John (2003). Spiders of Southern Africa. Struik. p. 83.
Categories:
- Araneomorphae genera
- Caponiidae
- Spiders of Africa
- Taxa named by Eugène Simon
- Araneomorphae stubs