Stemmops

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Stemmops O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894
Type species
S. bicolor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894
Species
27, see text

Stemmops is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1894.

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains twenty-seven species, found mostly in the Americas, though several species occur in east Asia:

• Stemmops belavista Marques & Buckup, 1996 – Brazil
• Stemmops bicolor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 (type) – USA to Panama, Cuba, Bahama Is.
• Stemmops cambridgei Levi, 1955 – Mexico, Honduras
• Stemmops carajas Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil
• Stemmops caranavi Marques & Buckup, 1996 – Bolivia
• Stemmops carauari Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil
• Stemmops carius Marques & Buckup, 1996 – Brazil
• Stemmops concolor Simon, 1898 – St. Vincent
• Stemmops cryptus Levi, 1955 – Panama
• Stemmops forcipus Zhu, 1998 – China, Laos
• Stemmops guapiacu Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil
• Stemmops lina Levi, 1955 – Mexico
• Stemmops mellus Levi, 1964 – Panama
• Stemmops murici Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil
• Stemmops nigrabdomenus Zhu, 1998 – China, Laos
• Stemmops nipponicus Yaginuma, 1969 – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
• Stemmops ornatus (Bryant, 1933) – USA
• Stemmops orsus Levi, 1964 – Panama, Brazil
• Stemmops osorno (Levi, 1963) – Chile
• Stemmops pains Santanna & Rodrigues, 2018 – Brazil
• Stemmops questus Levi, 1955 – Mexico to Venezuela
• Stemmops salenas Marques & Buckup, 1996 – Brazil
• Stemmops satpudaensis Rajoria, 2015 – India
• Stemmops servus Levi, 1964 – Panama, Brazil
• Stemmops subtilis (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela
• Stemmops vicosa Levi, 1964 – Brazil
• Stemmops victoria Levi, 1955 – Mexico

In synonymy:

• S. darlingtoni Bryant, 1940 = Stemmops bicolor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894
• S. orniceps (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) = Stemmops ornatus (Bryant, 1933)

References

Further reading

• Levi, H. W. (1955). "The spider genera Oronota and Stemmops in North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 48 (5): 333–342. doi:10.1093/aesa/48.5.333.
• Levi, H. W. (1964). "The spider genera Stemmops, Chrosiothes, and the new genus Cabello from America". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 71 (2): 73–92. doi:10.1155/1964/60425.
• Santanna, M.; Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2018). "Five new species and new records of the spider genus Stemmops (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharinae) from Brazil". Zootaxa. 4524 (2): 174–186. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4524.2.2. PMID 30486119. S2CID 54109591.
• Marques, M. A. L.; Buckup, E. H. (1996). "Novas espécies sulamericanas do gênero Stemmops (Araneae; Theridiidae)". Biociências. 4: 69–76.
• Song, D. X.; Zhu, M. S.; Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang. p. 640.
• Yaginuma, T. (1969). "A new Japanese spider of the genus Stemmops (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnida Tokyo. 22: 14–16. doi:10.2476/asjaa.22.14.

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