Cleocnemis

Cleocnemis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Philodromidae
Genus:	Cleocnemis Simon, 1886
Type species
C. heteropoda Simon, 1886
Species
8, see text
Synonyms
Berlandiella Mello-Leitão, 1929 Metacleocnemis Mello-Leitão, 1929

Cleocnemis is a genus of South American running crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.

Species

As of September 2022^[update] it contains eight species, found only in South America:

• Cleocnemis heteropoda Simon, 1886 (type) – Brazil
• Cleocnemis insignis (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
• Cleocnemis lanceolata Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Cleocnemis magna (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
• Cleocnemis mutilata (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Brazil
• Cleocnemis querencia (Lise & Silva, 2011) – Brazil
• Cleocnemis robertae (Lise & Silva, 2011) – Brazil, Argentina
• Cleocnemis zabele (Pantoja, Drago-Bisneto & Saturnino, 2020) – Brazil

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