Stormtropis is a genus of Colombian baldlegged spiders first described by C. Perafán, W. Galvis & Fernando Pérez-Miles in 2019. The genus name is in reference to the fictional stormtroopers of the Star Wars franchise.[2]

Stormtropis
Stormtropis muisca, male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Paratropididae
Genus: Stormtropis
Perafán, Galvis & Pérez-Miles, 2019[1]
Type species
S. parvum Perafán, Galvis & Pérez-Miles, 2019
Species

4, see text

Species

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

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Stormtropis Perafán, Galvis & Pérez-Miles, 2019". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. ^ Perafán, C.; Galvis, W.; Pérez-Miles, F. (2019). "The first Paratropididae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) from Colombia: new genus, species and records". ZooKeys (830): 1–31. Bibcode:2019ZooK..830....1P. doi:10.3897/zookeys.830.31433. PMC 6428803. PMID 30918439.
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