Chorizopes is a genus of orb-weaver spiders that was erected by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through leaf litter preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs. The original name was "Chorizoopes", but the emendationChorizopes by Tamerlan Thorell is now protected by usage.
Species
As of April2019[update] it contains twenty-six species, most from India and China, with several others found in locations ranging from Madagascar to Japan:
↑Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1871). "On some new genera and species of Araneida". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 38 (3, for 1870): 728–747.
