Sphecotypus

Sphecotypus
Sphecotypus niger
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Sphecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 [1]
Type species
S. niger (Perty, 1833)
Species
4, see text

Sphecotypus is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1895. ^[2]

Species

As of April 2019 ^[update] it contains four species: ^[1]

• Sphecotypus birmanicus (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Sphecotypus borneensis Yamasaki, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
• Sphecotypus niger (Perty, 1833) (type) – Nicaragua to Brazil
• Sphecotypus taprobanicus Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka

References

1. "Gen. Sphecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-23.
2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1895), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology