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Nops guanabacoae

Nops guanabacoae
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Nops guanabacoae male, Cuba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Caponiidae
Genus: Nops
Species: N. guanabacoae
Binomial name
Nops guanabacoae
MacLeay, 1839
Nops guanabacoae map.jpg

Medium-sized caponiids with only two eyes and carapace uniformly orange. N. guanabacoae is the type species of genus Nops, more information on this article.

Differ from other Nops species by the male and female genitalia.

Extensively distributed throughout the archipelago of Cuba.

Soil spiders inhabiting preferably under stones and in leaf litter.

Nops guanabacoae female (right) and male (left), dorsal view.

Nops guanabacoae female (right) and male (left), ventral view.

Nops guanabacoae male allotype describe by Bryant (1940), dorsal view.


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