Hortipes

Hortipes
Female H. schoemanae
Female H. coccinatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Hortipes Bosselaers & Ledoux, 1998 [1]
Type species
H. luytenae Bosselaers & Ledoux, 1998
Species
70, see text

Hortipes is a genus of African corinnid sac spiders first described by J. Bosselaers & J.-C. Ledoux in 1998. ^[2]

Description

See also: Glossary of spider terms

Anatomical photos of H. gigapophysalis

Species

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

• Hortipes abucoletus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes aelurisiepae Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Mozabique, South Africa
• Hortipes alderweireldti Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Equatorial Guinea
• Hortipes amphibolus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – DR Congo
• Hortipes anansiodatus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes angariopsis Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes arboricola Ledoux & Emerit, 1998 – Gabon
• Hortipes architelones Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes atalante Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes auriga Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo
• Hortipes aurora Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo
• Hortipes baerti Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Ivory Coast
• Hortipes bjorni Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes bosmansi Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes calliblepharus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes castor Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes centralis Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo
• Hortipes chrysothemis Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes coccinatus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes contubernalis Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes creber Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes cucurbita Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes delphinus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes depravator Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes echo Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo
• Hortipes exoptans Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes falcatus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
• Hortipes fastigiensis Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes fortipes Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Equatorial Guinea
• Hortipes gigapophysalis Jocqué, Bosselaers & Henrard, 2012 – Guinea
• Hortipes griswoldi Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes hastatus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo, Uganda
• Hortipes hesperoecius Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Sierra Leone
• Hortipes hormigricola Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes horta Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo
• Hortipes hyakutake Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes irimus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes klumpkeae Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes lejeunei Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo, Rwanda
• Hortipes leno Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes libidinosus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes licnophorus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes limicola Ledoux & Emerit, 1998 – Gabon
• Hortipes luytenae Bosselaers & Ledoux, 1998 – South Africa (type species)
• Hortipes machaeropolion Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Nigeria
• Hortipes marginatus Ledoux & Emerit, 1998 – Ivory Coast
• Hortipes merwei Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes mesembrinus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes mulciber Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes narcissus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo
• Hortipes orchatocnemis Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Malawi
• Hortipes oronesiotes Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Malawi
• Hortipes ostiovolutus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes paludigena Ledoux & Emerit, 1998 – Gabon
• Hortipes penthesileia Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Malawi
• Hortipes platnicki Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes pollux Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Malawi
• Hortipes puylaerti Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes robertus Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes rothorum Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes salticola Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes sceptrum Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Cameroon
• Hortipes scharffi Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes schoemanae Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa, Eswatini
• Hortipes silvarum Ledoux & Emerit, 1998 – Ivory Coast
• Hortipes stoltzei Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Tanzania
• Hortipes tarachodes Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo
• Hortipes terminator Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Congo
• Hortipes wimmertensi Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – South Africa
• Hortipes zombaensis Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2000 – Malawi

References

1. "Genus Hortipes". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-01.
2. Bosselaers, J.; Ledoux, J.-C. (1998). "Description of a new African genus, Hortipes (Araneae, Liocranidae)". Revue Arachnologique. 12: 147–152.