Nops blandus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caponioidea

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: Haplogynae Superfamilia: Caponioidea

Familia: Caponiidae
Genus: Nops
Species: Nops blandus

Name

Nops blandus (Bryant, 1942)

Type locality: Christiansted (17°44′37′′N, 64°42′54′′W), St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Island.

Holotype: MCZ. male ♂. legit H.A. Beatty. MCZ 20539.

Synonymy

• Caponina blanda Bryant, 1942: 328 (original combination)
• Nops blandus (Bryant): Chickering, 1967: 4
• Nops virginicus Sánchez–Ruiz, 2010: 23 (synonymized by Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018: 24)
  • Type locality: Little Saint James, Puerto Rico.
    • Holotype: BSC 656. male ♂. 13.XI.1966. Sánchez–Ruiz.

References

Primary references

• Bryant, E.B. 1942a. Notes on the spiders of the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 89: 317-366. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2010. Una especie nueva del género Nops MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae, Caponiidae) procedente de Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos de América, Antillas Menores. Novitates Caribaea 3: 22-31. Reference page. 
• Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2018. A revision of the spider genus Nops MacLeay (Araneae: Caponiidae) with the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the Nopinae genera.Zootaxa 4427 (1): 001–121. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.1 Reference page.