Chorizoopes O. P. - Cambridge, 1870, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., p. 737. Type species by monotypy: C. frontalis O. P. - Cambridge, 1870.
Chorizopes , - Thorell, 1873, Remarks on Synonyms of European Spiders, p. 600.
Note. - Most later authors have followed Thorell in the spelling of the generic name.
Chorizopes is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1871.[1] Though it belongs to the orb weaver family, these spiders move through leaf litter preying on other spiders rather than spinning webs.[2] The original name was "Chorizoopes", but the emendation Chorizopes by Tamerlan Thorell is now protected by usage.[3]
As of April 2019 it contains twenty-six species, most from India and China, with several others found in locations ranging from Madagascar to Japan:[3]
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.
