Caponia

Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.[2] As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly-arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena, and breathe using two pairs of tracheae rather than book lungs. They are agile, nocturnal hunters, that hide by day in a variety of silk-lined retreats.[3]

Not to be confused with Calponia.

Caponia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Caponiidae
Genus: Caponia
Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
C. natalensis
Species

11, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]

  • Caponia abyssinica Strand, 1908 – Ethiopia
  • Caponia braunsi Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • Caponia capensis Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique
  • Caponia chelifera Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
  • Caponia forficifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • Caponia hastifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique
  • Caponia karrooica Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • Caponia natalensis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (type) – Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
  • Caponia secunda Pocock, 1900 – South Africa
  • Caponia simoni Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • Caponia spiralifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa

References
  1. "Gen. Caponia Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  2. Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.
  3. Leroy, Astri; Leroy, John (2003). Spiders of Southern Africa. Struik. p. 83.


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