Sphecotypus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Corinnoidea

Familia: Corinnidae
Subfamilia: Castianeirinae
Genus: Sphecotypus
Species:
Name

Sphecotypus Cambridge, 1895: Biol. Centr. Amer., Zool., Arachn. Aran., 1, 152.
References

Leister, M.; Miller, K. 2014: First description of the male of Sphecotypus niger (Perty, 1833), with notes on behavioral and morphological mimicry (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 3814(1): 146–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.1.10 Reference page.

Sphecotypus is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1895.[2]
Species

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

Sphecotypus birmanicus (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
Sphecotypus borneensis Yamasaki, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
Sphecotypus niger (Perty, 1833) (type) – Nicaragua to Brazil
Sphecotypus taprobanicus Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka

References

"Gen. Sphecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1895), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology