Nops (spider)

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Nops
Temporal range: Neogene–present
Nops guanabacoae.jpg
Nops guanabacoae male, Cuba
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Caponiidae
Genus: Nops
authority = MacLeay, 1839[1]
Type species
N. guanabacoae
MacLeay, 1839
Species

38, see text

Nops is a genus of medium-sized South American, Central American, and Caribbean spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Alexander Macleay in 1839.[2] It has a great richness on the Caribbean islands, and most mainland species are located in high proportion toward the Caribbean coast. It likely has a neotropical distribution, though most species of South America are known only from the coast of Colombia and Venezuela, including the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire and Trinidad.[1]

Monophyly[]

Nops have subsegmeted tarsi, as well as two other leg characters often found in nopine genera: a ventral translucent keel on the anterior metatarsi and a translucent membrane between the anterior metatarsi and tarsi. These spiders can be distinguished from similar genera with these modifications by their elongated unpaired claw on the anterior legs, extending dorsally between the paired claws.[3][4][5][6]

Species[]

As of April 2019 it contains thirty-eight species plus one fossil in Dominican amber:[7][1]

  • Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Puerto Rico
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Strand, 1909 – Paraguay
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Chamberlin, 1916 – Peru
  • (Bryant, 1942) – Virgin Is. (US and UK)
  • Nops branicki (Taczanowski, 1874) – French Guiana
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica
  • Simon, 1892 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (St. Vincent)
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, 2004 – Cuba
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, 2005 – Hispaniola (Dominican Rep.)
  • Prosen, 1949 – Argentina
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Virgin Is. (UK), Puerto Rico (Culebra Is.)
  • Chickering, 1967 – Curaçao
  • Chickering, 1967 – Hispaniola (Dominican Rep.)
  • Hasselt, 1887 – Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire)
  • Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, 1839 (type) – Cuba, Bahamas
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Rep.)
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Dominican Rep.
  • Chickering, 1967 – Panama
  • Simon, 1893 – Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana
  • Simon, 1893 – Brazil
  • Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Navassa Is. (Haiti or USA)
  • Simon, 1907 – Brazil
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Cuba
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Dupérré, 2014 – Ecuador
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, 2004 – Cuba
  • Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
  • Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Chickering, 1967 – Jamaica
  • Chickering, 1967 – Panama
  • Keyserling, 1877 – Colombia, Venezuela

Image gallery[]

  • Nops craneae Chickering, carapace

  • Nops enae Sánchez-Ruiz

  • Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, female with egg sac

  • Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, male

  • Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, claws on leg I

  • Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, tarso of leg I

  • Nops siboney Sánchez-Ruiz, ventral view

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Nops MacLeay, 1839". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  2. ^ MacLeay, W. S. (1839). "On some new forms of Arachnida". Annals of Natural History. 2 (7): 1–2.
  3. ^ Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2004). "Current taxonomic status of the family Caponiidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Cuba with the description of two new species" (PDF). . 9: 95–102.
  4. ^ Jiménez, M. L.; Platnick, N. I.; Dupérré, N. (2011). "The haplogyne spider genus Nopsides (Araneae, Caponiidae), with notes on Amrishoonops" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3708 (3708): 1–18. doi:10.1206/3708.2. S2CID 84120801.
  5. ^ Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2010). "Una nueva especie del género Nops Macleay, 1839 (Araneae, Caponiidae) procedente de Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos de América, Antillas Menores". Novitates Caribaea. 3 (3): 22–31. doi:10.33800/nc.v0i3.161.
  6. ^ Sánchez-Ruiz, A.; Platnick, N.I.; Dupérré, N. (2010). "A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3705: 1–44. doi:10.1206/3705.2. S2CID 81594595.
  7. ^ Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2004). "Current taxonomic status of the family Caponiidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Cuba with the description of two new species" (PDF). . 9: 95–102.
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