Steriphopus Explained

Steriphopus is a genus of palp-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.^[1]

Species

it contains five species, found only in Asia, Sri Lanka,India and on the Seychelles:^[2]

• Steriphopus benjamini Zonstein & Marusik, 2023 – India
• Steriphopus crassipalpis Tamerlan Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Steriphopus lacertosus Simon, 1898 – Seychelles
• Steriphopus macleayi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 (type) – Sri Lanka
• Steriphopus wangala Kadam,Tripathi & Sankaran, 2024 – India

See also

• List of Palpimanidae species

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1887. Etudes arachnologiques. 19e Mémoire. XXVII. Arachnides recueillis à Assinie (Afrique occidentale) par MM. Chaper et Alluaud. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 261–276. 7. 6. Eugène Simon.
2. Gen. Steriphopus Simon, 1887. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.