# Styposis

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{{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](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1894<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[S. flavescens](/source/Styposis_flavescens)''
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1894
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 14, see text
| synonyms = 
*''Cyatholipulus'' <small>[Petrunkevitch](/source/Alexander_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](/source/genus) of [comb-footed spiders](/source/Theridiidae) that was first described by [Eugène Louis Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_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](/source/Synonym_(taxonomy)) 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](/source/Comaroma)'' also have six eyes, but also have a large [colulus](/source/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](/source/Central_Africa), the [United States](/source/United_States), and [Puerto Rico](/source/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](/source/Styposis_ajo)'' <small>[Levi](/source/Herbert_Walter_Levi), 1960</small> – USA
*''[Styposis albula](/source/Styposis_albula)'' <small>([Gertsch](/source/Willis_J._Gertsch), 1960)</small> – [Guyana](/source/Guyana)
*''[Styposis camoteensis](/source/Styposis_camoteensis)'' <small>(Levi, 1967)</small> – [Chile](/source/Chile) (Juan Fernandez Is.)
*''[Styposis chickeringi](/source/Styposis_chickeringi)'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – [Panama](/source/Panama)
*''[Styposis clausis](/source/Styposis_clausis)'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – USA to Colombia
*''[Styposis colorados](/source/Styposis_colorados)'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> – [Ecuador](/source/Ecuador)
*''[Styposis flavescens](/source/Styposis_flavescens)'' <small>Simon, 1894</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Nicaragua to Venezuela
*''[Styposis kahuziensis](/source/Styposis_kahuziensis)'' <small>Miller, 1970</small> – [Congo](/source/Central_Africa)
*''[Styposis lutea](/source/Styposis_lutea)'' <small>([Petrunkevitch](/source/Alexander_Petrunkevitch), 1930)</small> – [Puerto Rico](/source/Puerto_Rico)
*''[Styposis nicaraguensis](/source/Styposis_nicaraguensis)'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – [Nicaragua](/source/Nicaragua)
*''[Styposis rancho](/source/Styposis_rancho)'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – [Venezuela](/source/Venezuela)
*''[Styposis scleropsis](/source/Styposis_scleropsis)'' <small>Levi, 1960</small> – Panama
*''[Styposis selis](/source/Styposis_selis)'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> – [Brazil](/source/Brazil)
*''[Styposis tepus](/source/Styposis_tepus)'' <small>(Levi, 1967)</small> – Chile

==References==
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==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

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