Crossopriza

Crossopriza is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[4]

Crossopriza
Crossopriza lyoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Crossopriza Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
C. pristina (Simon, 1890)
Species
7, see text
Synonyms[1]
Ceratopholcus Spassky, 1934[2] Tibiosa González-Sponga, 2006[3]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains seven species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, Venezuela, the United States, and Germany:[1]

• Crossopriza johncloudsleyi Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten, 2001 – Yemen, Kenya
• Crossopriza lyoni (Blackwall, 1867) – Africa. Introduced to USA, Venezuela, Germany, China, Japan, Korea, tropical Asia, Australia
• Crossopriza maculipes (Spassky, 1934) – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan
• Crossopriza nigrescens Millot, 1946 – Madagascar
• Crossopriza pristina (Simon, 1890) (type) – Sudan, Yemen
• Crossopriza semicaudata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Egypt
• Crossopriza soudanensis Millot, 1941 – Mali, Burkina Faso

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

References

1. "Gen. Crossopriza Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Huber, B. A.; Colmenares, P. A.; Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae". Zootaxa. 3847 (3): 420. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5</a>.
3. Huber, B. A. (2009). "Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa. 1970: 65.
4. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1, . <a href='https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.51973'>doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973</a>. pp. 257–488.