Cispius (spider)

Genus of spiders

Cispius

C. kimbius in Pretoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Pisauridae
Genus:  | Cispius
Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
C. variegatus

Simon, 1898

Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]

* Cispiomma Roewer, 1955[2]

Cispius is a genus of African nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[3]

## Species

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As of June 2019[update] it contains nine species, found only in Africa:[1]

* Cispius affinis Lessert, 1916 – East Africa
* Cispius bidentatus Lessert, 1936 – Central, East Africa
* Cispius kimbius Blandin, 1978 – South Africa
* Cispius maruanus (Roewer, 1955) – West, Central Africa
* Cispius problematicus Blandin, 1978 – Congo
* Cispius simoni Lessert, 1915 – East Africa
* Cispius strandi Caporiacco, 1947 – East Africa
* Cispius thorelli Blandin, 1978 – Congo
* Cispius variegatus Simon, 1898 (type) – Congo

## See also

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* List of Pisauridae species

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Gen. Cispius Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. ^ Blandin, P. (1978). "Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines IX. Mise au point sur les genres Cispius Simon, 1898 et Charminus Thorell, 1899 (Araneae - Pisauridae - Pisaurinae)". Revue Zoologique Africaine. 92: 44.
3. ^ Simon, E. (1898). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 42: 5–34.

Taxon identifiers

Cispius|

* Wikidata: Q2974339
* Wikispecies: Cispius
* ADW: Cispius
* BioLib: 466382
* CoL: 3Q8B
* EoL: 113006
* GBIF: 2150837
* iNaturalist: 420111
* IRMNG: 1309455
* ITIS: 871892
* NCBI: 2797813
* Open Tree of Life: 3556230
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01703

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