Holopelus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Holopelus Simon, 1886[1] |
| Type species | |
| H. bufoninus Simon, 1886
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| Species | |
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Species edit
As of September 2020[update] it contains seven species, found in Asia and Africa:[1]
- Holopelus albibarbis Simon, 1895 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), South Africa
- Holopelus almiae Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1986 – South Africa
- Holopelus bufoninus Simon, 1886 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Holopelus crassiceps (Strand, 1913) – Central Africa
- Holopelus irroratus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
- Holopelus malati Simon, 1895 – India
- Holopelus piger O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Sri Lanka
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Holopelus Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
- ^ Simon, E. (1886). "Espèces et genres nouveaux de la famille des Thomisisdae". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 40: 167–187.
Further reading edit
- Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1986). "The crab-spiders of southern Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). 7. The genus Holopelus Simon, 1886". Phytophylactica. 18: 187–190.
- Simon, E. (1907). "Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 43: 218–323.
- Simon, E. (1895). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Thomisidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 39: 432–443.
- Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1989). "The crab spiders of southern Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). 8. The genus Thomisops Karsch, 1879". Phytophylactica. 21: 319–330.
- Strand, E. (1913), "Arachnida. I", in Schubotz, H. (ed.), Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg