{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Neogene| Present}} | 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<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''S. flavescens'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1894 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 14, see text | synonyms = *''Cyatholipulus'' <small>Petrunkevitch, 1930</small><ref name=Brig1980>{{cite journal| last=Brignoli| first=P. M.| year=1980| title=Some new or interesting eastern Mediterranean Dysderidae and Agelenidae (Araneae)| journal=Annales Zoologici, Warszawa| volume=35| page=731}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Styposis''''' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.<ref name=Simo1894>{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1894| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | location=Paris| language=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51973| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}</ref> It is a senior synonym of ''Cyatholipulus''.<ref name=Brig1980 />
They are unpigmented, small spiders, usually measuring less than {{convert|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.<ref name=Levi1960>{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1960| title=The spider genus ''Styposis'' (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology| pages=13–19| volume=66| issue=1–2| doi=10.1155/1959/68145| url=http://psyche2.entclub.org/articles/66/66-013.pdf| doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2020|06}} it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, South America, the Congo, the United States, and Puerto Rico:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Styposis Simon, 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/3545| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Styposis ajo'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – USA *''Styposis albula'' <small>(Gertsch, 1960)</small> – Guyana *''Styposis camoteensis'' <small>(Levi, 1967)</small> – Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.) *''Styposis chickeringi'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Panama *''Styposis clausis'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – USA to Colombia *''Styposis colorados'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> – Ecuador *''Styposis flavescens'' <small>Simon, 1894</small> (type) – Nicaragua to Venezuela *''Styposis kahuziensis'' <small>Miller, 1970</small> – Congo *''Styposis lutea'' <small>(Petrunkevitch, 1930)</small> – Puerto Rico *''Styposis nicaraguensis'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Nicaragua *''Styposis rancho'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Venezuela *''Styposis scleropsis'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Panama *''Styposis selis'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> – Brazil *''Styposis tepus'' <small>(Levi, 1967)</small> – Chile
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1964| title=The American spiders of the genera ''Styposis'' and ''Pholcomma'' (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology| pages=32–39| volume=71| doi=10.1155/1964/91242| url=http://psyche2.entclub.org/articles/71/71-032.pdf| doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal| last=Agnarsson| first=I.| year=2006| title=A revision of the New World ''eximius'' lineage of ''Anelosimus'' (Araneae, Theridiidae) and a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| pages=453–593| volume=146| issue=4| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00213.x| doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1967| title=The theridiid spider fauna of Chile| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=1–20| volume=136}}
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Category:Theridiidae genera Category:Theridiidae Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon