Ceratinopsis

Ceratinopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Subfamily:	Erigoninae
Genus:	Ceratinopsis Emerton, 1882 [1]
Type species
C. interpres (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)
Species
44, see text

Ceratinopsis is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by James Henry Emerton in 1882. ^[2]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 44 species: ^[1]

• Ceratinopsis acripes (Denis, 1962) – Canary Islands, Madeira
• Ceratinopsis africana (Holm, 1962) – Gabon, Kenya
• Ceratinopsis atolma Chamberlin, 1925 – United States
• Ceratinopsis auriculata Emerton, 1909 – Canada, United States
• Ceratinopsis benoiti (Holm, 1968) – Tanzania
• Ceratinopsis blesti Locket, 1982 – Singapore
• Ceratinopsis bona Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – United States
• Ceratinopsis crosbyi Chamberlin, 1949 – United States
• Ceratinopsis delicata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939 – United States
• Ceratinopsis dippenaarae Jocqué, 1984 – South Africa
• Ceratinopsis disparata (Dondale, 1959) – United States
• Ceratinopsis fako Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983 – Cameroon
• Ceratinopsis georgiana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – United States
• Ceratinopsis gosibia Chamberlin, 1949 – United States
• Ceratinopsis guerrerensis Gertsch & Davis, 1937 – Mexico
• Ceratinopsis holmi Jocqué, 1981 – Malawi, Tanzania
• Ceratinopsis idanrensis Locket & Russell-Smith, 1980 – Nigeria, Botswana
• Ceratinopsis infuscata (Denis, 1962) – Madeira
• Ceratinopsis interpres (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Canada, United States (type species)
• Ceratinopsis interventa Chamberlin, 1949 – United States
• Ceratinopsis labradorensis Emerton, 1925 – Canada
• Ceratinopsis laticeps Emerton, 1882 – Canada, United States
• Ceratinopsis locketi Millidge, 1995 – Indonesia (Krakatau)
• Ceratinopsis machadoi (Miller, 1970) – Nigeria, Angola
• Ceratinopsis mbamensis Bosmans, 1988 – Cameroon
• Ceratinopsis monticola (Simon, 1894) – Sri Lanka
• Ceratinopsis munda (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Guatemala
• Ceratinopsis nigriceps Emerton, 1882 – Canada, United States
• Ceratinopsis nigripalpis Emerton, 1882 – Canada, United States
• Ceratinopsis nitida (Holm, 1964) – Cameroon, DR Congo
• Ceratinopsis oregonicola Chamberlin, 1949 – United States
• Ceratinopsis orientalis Locket, 1982 – Laos, Malaysia (peninsula), Indonesia (Java)
• Ceratinopsis palomara Chamberlin, 1949 – United States
• Ceratinopsis raboeli Scharff, 1989 – Kenya
• Ceratinopsis rosea Banks, 1898 – Mexico
• Ceratinopsis secuta Chamberlin, 1949 – United States
• Ceratinopsis setoensis (Oi, 1960) – Korea, Japan
• Ceratinopsis sinuata Bosmans, 1988 – Cameroon
• Ceratinopsis sutoris Bishop & Crosby, 1930 – Canada, United States
• Ceratinopsis swanea Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – United States
• Ceratinopsis sylvania Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – United States
• Ceratinopsis watsinga Chamberlin, 1949 – United States
• Ceratinopsis xanthippe (Keyserling, 1886) – United States
• Ceratinopsis yola Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939 – United States

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species

References

1. "Gen. Ceratinopsis Emerton, 1882". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-18.
2. Emerton, J. H. (1882). "New England spiders of the family Theridiidae". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 6: 1–86. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.7410.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Ceratinopsis at iNaturalist