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Caponia
Sign in to saveCaponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyCaponiidae
Caponia is een geslacht van spinnen uit de familie Caponiidae.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 159
- Family
- Caponiidae
- Collections
- SAM, ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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- Parent taxon
- Caponiidae
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- Caponia sp, Little Eden.jpg
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- Caponia
- taxonomic type
- Caponia natalensis
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Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.
As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena, and breathe using two pairs of tracheae rather than book lungs. They are agile, nocturnal hunters, that hide by day in a variety of silk-lined retreats.
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