Chinoscopus
Genus of spiders
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Chinoscopus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.[2]
| Chinoscopus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Lyssomaninae |
| Genus: | Chinoscopus Simon, 1901[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. gracilis (Taczanowski, 1872) | |
| Species | |
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4, see text | |
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains four species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:[1]
- Chinoscopus ernsti (Simon, 1900) – Venezuela
- Chinoscopus flavus (Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Panama, Colombia
- Chinoscopus gracilis (Taczanowski, 1872) (type) – Ecuador, Brazil, French Guiana
- Chinoscopus maculipes Crane, 1943 – Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador
