Stephanopis is a genus of crab spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.[2] It was erected for five then newly described species, including S. altifrons, from Australia.[3]Stephanopis was characterized by the high cephalic region with unequally sized anterior eyes (ALE larger than AME) disposed in a strongly recurved row, opisthosoma ending in several spiniform projections and dorsoventrally depressed habitus.[3] According to Pickard-Cambridge, the single specimen used for the description of S. altifrons was dry-pinned. Therefore the specimen could not be properly examined, so it was not possible to determine if the specimen was adult. Moreover, he states his own sketch of the spider as “hasty” or "dull". This may explain why the somatic characters were inadequately described, genitalic features were not mentioned at all, and the illustrations were not detailed enough, making the species unidentifiable.[3]
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^Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneida, with characters of a new genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (3): 52–74.
^ abcMachado, Miguel; Teixeira, Renato Augusto; Milledge, Graham A. (2019). "On the Australian bark crab spider genus Stephanopis: taxonomic review and description of seven new species (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae)". Records of the Australian Museum. 71 (6): 217–276. doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1698. hdl:10923/20187. S2CID 203877196.
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List of Thomisidae species "Stephanopis altifrons". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved February 4, 2020. "Stephanopis altifrons". Arachne.org. Retrieved...
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and it has only been found in Panama. Eugène Simon synonymized it with Stephanopis in 1903 due to several similarities to the genus, but Machado & Teixeira...
Viecelli, and C. Guzati in 2021 after a phylogenetic analysis showed that Stephanopis contained two distinctly different clades. The genus was created for...
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The species was first described by in 1874 by Ludwig Koch in the genus Stephanopis. It was later placed in the genus Sidyma by R. de Delmas in 1917; however...
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