Styposis

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title: "Styposis" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["theridiidae-genera", "theridiidae", "taxa-named-by-eugène-simon"] description: "Genus of spiders" topic_path: "general/theridiidae-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styposis" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of spiders ::

| fossil_range = | taxon = Styposis | image = Styposis.selis.male.svg | image_caption = male S. selis | image2 = Styposis.rancho.eye.pattern.svg | image2_caption = Eye pattern of S. rancho | authority = Simon, 1894 | type_species = S. flavescens | type_species_authority = Simon, 1894 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 14, see text | synonyms =

• Cyatholipulus Petrunkevitch, 1930 | synonyms_ref = Styposis is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894. It is a senior synonym of Cyatholipulus.

They are unpigmented, small spiders, usually measuring less than 2 mm long. Comb-footed spiders usually have eight eyes, but most species have six large eyes, with the anterior median eyes extremely small or absent entirely. Members of Comaroma also have six eyes, but also have a large colulus and are less sclerotized.

Species

it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, South America, the Congo, the United States, and Puerto Rico:

• Styposis ajo Levi, 1960 – USA
• Styposis albula (Gertsch, 1960) – Guyana
• Styposis camoteensis (Levi, 1967) – Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.)
• Styposis chickeringi Levi, 1960 – Panama
• Styposis clausis Levi, 1960 – USA to Colombia
• Styposis colorados Levi, 1964 – Ecuador
• Styposis flavescens Simon, 1894 (type) – Nicaragua to Venezuela
• Styposis kahuziensis Miller, 1970 – Congo
• Styposis lutea (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
• Styposis nicaraguensis Levi, 1960 – Nicaragua
• Styposis rancho Levi, 1960 – Venezuela
• Styposis scleropsis Levi, 1960 – Panama
• Styposis selis Levi, 1964 – Brazil
• Styposis tepus (Levi, 1967) – Chile

References

References

1. Brignoli, P. M.. (1980). "Some new or interesting eastern Mediterranean Dysderidae and Agelenidae (Araneae)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa.
2. Simon, E. (1894). "Histoire naturelle des araignées". Roret.
3. Levi, H. W.. (1960). "The spider genus ''Styposis'' (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology.
4. (2020). "Gen. Styposis Simon, 1894". Natural History Museum Bern.

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