Zoropsis
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| Zoropsis | |
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| Zoropsis spinimana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Zoropsidae |
| Genus: | Zoropsis Simon, 1878 |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 14 species | |
Zoropsis is a spider genus in the family Zoropsidae. The genus was described in 1878 by Eugène Simon. The genus name comes from Zora C.L.Koch, 1847, another genus of spiders, and the Greek ὄψις (ópsis) "aspect", because the two genera look similar.[1]