{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Neogene| Present}} | taxon = Stemmops | image = Stemmops.questa.male.lateral.svg | image_caption = male ''S. questa'' | authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''S. bicolor'' | type_species_authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 27, see text }} '''''Stemmops''''' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1894.<ref name=Pick1894>{{citation| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1894| contribution=Arachnida. Araneida| title=Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology| author-link=Octavius Pickard-Cambridge}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2020|06}} it contains twenty-seven species, found mostly in the Americas, though several species occur in east Asia:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Stemmops O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-14| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3543| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Stemmops belavista'' <small>Marques & Buckup, 1996</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops bicolor'' <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894</small> (type) – USA to Panama, Cuba, Bahama Is. *''Stemmops cambridgei'' <small>Levi, 1955</small> – Mexico, Honduras *''Stemmops carajas'' <small>Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops caranavi'' <small>Marques & Buckup, 1996</small> – Bolivia *''Stemmops carauari'' <small>Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops carius'' <small>Marques & Buckup, 1996</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops concolor'' <small>Simon, 1898</small> – St. Vincent *''Stemmops cryptus'' <small>Levi, 1955</small> – Panama *''Stemmops forcipus'' <small>Zhu, 1998</small> – China, Laos *''Stemmops guapiacu'' <small>Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops lina'' <small>Levi, 1955</small> – Mexico *''Stemmops mellus'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> – Panama *''Stemmops murici'' <small>Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops nigrabdomenus'' <small>Zhu, 1998</small> – China, Laos *''Stemmops nipponicus'' <small>Yaginuma, 1969</small> – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan *''Stemmops ornatus'' <small>(Bryant, 1933)</small> – USA *''Stemmops orsus'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> – Panama, Brazil *''Stemmops osorno'' <small>(Levi, 1963)</small> – Chile *''Stemmops pains'' <small>Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops questus'' <small>Levi, 1955</small> – Mexico to Venezuela *''Stemmops salenas'' <small>Marques & Buckup, 1996</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops satpudaensis'' <small>Rajoria, 2015</small> – India *''Stemmops servus'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> – Panama, Brazil *''Stemmops subtilis'' <small>(Simon, 1895)</small> – Venezuela *''Stemmops vicosa'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> – Brazil *''Stemmops victoria'' <small>Levi, 1955</small> – Mexico
'''In synonymy:''' *''S. darlingtoni'' <small>Bryant, 1940</small> = ''Stemmops bicolor'' <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894</small> *''S. orniceps'' <small>(Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944)</small> = ''Stemmops ornatus'' <small>(Bryant, 1933)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1955| title=The spider genera ''Oronota'' and ''Stemmops'' in North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae)| journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America| pages=333–342| volume=48| issue=5| doi=10.1093/aesa/48.5.333}} *{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1964| title=The spider genera ''Stemmops'', ''Chrosiothes'', and the new genus ''Cabello'' from America| journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology| pages=73–92| volume=71| issue=2| doi=10.1155/1964/60425| doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal| last1=Santanna| first1=M.| last2=Rodrigues| first2=E. N. L.| year=2018| title=Five new species and new records of the spider genus ''Stemmops'' (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharinae) from Brazil| journal=Zootaxa| pages=174–186| volume=4524| issue=2| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4524.2.2| pmid=30486119| s2cid=54109591}} *{{cite journal| last1=Marques| first1=M. A. L.| last2=Buckup| first2=E. H.| year=1996| title=Novas espécies sulamericanas do gênero ''Stemmops'' (Araneae; Theridiidae)| journal=Biociências| pages=69–76| volume=4}} *{{cite book| last1=Song| first1=D. X.| last2=Zhu| first2=M. S.| last3=Chen| first3=J.| year=1999| title=The spiders of China| publisher=Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang| pages=640}} *{{cite journal| last=Yaginuma| first=T.| year=1969| title=A new Japanese spider of the genus ''Stemmops'' (Araneae: Theridiidae)| journal=Acta Arachnida Tokyo| volume=22| pages=14–16| doi=10.2476/asjaa.22.14}}
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of North America Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Category:Theridiidae
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