Chorizopes

Chorizopes is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through leaf litter preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs. The original name was "Chorizoopes", but the emendation Chorizopes by Tamerlan Thorell is now protected by usage.

==Species== it contains twenty-six species, most from India and China, with several others found in locations ranging from Madagascar to Japan: Chorizopes albus Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China Chorizopes anjanes Tikader, 1965 – India Chorizopes antongilensis Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar Chorizopes calciope (Simon, 1895) – India Chorizopes casictones Kallal & Hormiga, 2019 – Madagascar Chorizopes congener O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India Chorizopes dicavus Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China Chorizopes frontalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Sumatra) Chorizopes goosus Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China Chorizopes kastoni Gajbe & Gajbe, 2004 – India Chorizopes khandaricus Gajbe, 2005 – India Chorizopes khanjanes Tikader, 1965 – India, China Chorizopes khedaensis Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India Chorizopes longus Mi, Wang & Peng, 2016 – China Chorizopes madagascariensis Emerit, 1997 – Madagascar Chorizopes mucronatus Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka Chorizopes nipponicus Yaginuma, 1963 – China, Korea, Japan Chorizopes pateli Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India Chorizopes quadrituberculata Roy, Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2014 – India Chorizopes rajanpurensis Mukhtar & Tahir, 2013 – Pakistan Chorizopes shimenensis Yin & Peng, 1994 – China Chorizopes stoliczkae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – India Chorizopes tikaderi Sadana & Kaur, 1974 – India Chorizopes trimamillatus Schenkel, 1963 – China Chorizopes tumens Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China Chorizopes zepherus Zhu & Song, 1994 – China