Otiothops

Otiothops Temporal range: Neogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Otiothops sp. in Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Palpimanidae
Genus:	Otiothops MacLeay, 1839 [1]
Type species
O. walckenaeri MacLeay, 1839
Species
47, see text
Synonyms [1]
Iheringia Keyserling, 1891 [2]

Otiothops is a genus of palp-footed spiders that was first described by W. S. MacLeay in 1839. ^[3]

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found in South America, the Caribbean, and Panama: ^[1]

Species

As of January 2026 ^[update] , this genus includes 47 species: ^[1]

• Otiothops alayoni Cala-Riquelme & Agnarsson, 2014 – Cuba
• Otiothops amazonicus Simon, 1887 – Colombia, Brazil
• Otiothops atalaia Castro, Baptista, Grismado & Ramírez, 2015 – Brazil
• Otiothops atlanticus Platnick, Grismado & Ramírez, 1999 – Brazil
• Otiothops baculus Platnick, 1975 – Brazil
• Otiothops besotes Cala-Riquelme & Agnarsson, 2018 – Colombia
• Otiothops birabeni Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Brazil, Argentina
• Otiothops brevis Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
• Otiothops calcaratus Mello-Leitão, 1927 – Colombia
• Otiothops chicaque Cala-Riquelme, Quijano-Cuervo & Agnarsson, 2018 – Colombia
• Otiothops clavus Platnick, 1975 – Brazil
• Otiothops contus Platnick, 1975 – Brazil
• Otiothops curua Brescovit, Bonaldo & Barreiros, 2007 – Brazil
• Otiothops doctorstrange Cala-Riquelme & Quijano-Cuervo, 2018 – Colombia
• Otiothops dubius Mello-Leitão, 1927 – Brazil
• Otiothops facis Platnick, 1975 – Brazil
• Otiothops franzi Wunderlich, 1999 – Venezuela
• Otiothops fulvus (Mello-Leitão, 1932) – Brazil
• Otiothops germaini Simon, 1927 – Brazil
• Otiothops giralunas Grismado, 2002 – Guyana
• Otiothops goloboffi Grismado, 1996 – Argentina
• Otiothops gounellei Simon, 1887 – Brazil
• Otiothops goytacaz Castro, Baptista, Grismado & Ramírez, 2015 – Brazil
• Otiothops helena Brescovit & Bonaldo, 1993 – Brazil
• Otiothops hoeferi Brescovit & Bonaldo, 1993 – Brazil
• Otiothops iguazu Grismado, 2008 – Argentina
• Otiothops inflatus Platnick, 1975 – Paraguay, Argentina
• Otiothops intortus Platnick, 1975 – Trinidad
• Otiothops kathiae Piacentini, Ávila, Pérez & Grismado, 2013 – Bolivia
• Otiothops kochalkai Platnick, 1978 – Colombia
• Otiothops lajeado Buckup & Ott, 2004 – Brazil
• Otiothops loris Platnick, 1975 – Peru
• Otiothops luteus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Otiothops macleayi Banks, 1929 – Panama, Colombia
• Otiothops naokii Piacentini, Ávila, Pérez & Grismado, 2013 – Bolivia
• Otiothops oblongus Simon, 1892 – St. Vincent, Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
• Otiothops payak Grismado & Ramírez, 2002 – Argentina
• Otiothops pentucus Chickering, 1968 – Virgin Islands
• Otiothops pilleus Platnick, 1975 – Brazil
• Otiothops platnicki Wunderlich, 1999 – Brazil
• Otiothops puraquequara Brescovit, Bonaldo & Barreiros, 2007 – Brazil
• Otiothops recurvus Platnick, 1976 – Brazil
• Otiothops setosus Mello-Leitão, 1927 – Brazil
• Otiothops typicus (Mello-Leitão, 1927) – Brazil
• Otiothops vaupes Cala-Riquelme, Quijano-Cuervo & Agnarsson, 2018 – Colombia
• Otiothops walckenaeri MacLeay, 1839 – Bahama Islands, Cuba
• Otiothops whitticki Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Guyana

References

1. "Gen. MacLeay, 1839". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-25.
2. Platnick, N. I. (1975). "A revision of the palpimanid spiders of the new subfamily Otiothopinae (Araneae, Palpimanidae)". American Museum Novitates (2562): 5.
3. MacLeay, W. S. (1839). "On some new forms of Arachnida". Annals of Natural History. 2 (7): 1–2.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Otiothops at iNaturalist