Makdiops

Makdiops is a genus of Asian wall spiders that was first described by S. C. Crews & Mark Stephen Harvey in 2011.[2]

Makdiops
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Selenopidae
Genus: Makdiops
Crews & Harvey, 2011[1]
Type species
M. montigena
(Simon, 1889)
Species

5, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains five species, found in Nepal and India:[1]

  • Makdiops agumbensis (Tikader, 1969) – India
  • Makdiops mahishasura Crews & Harvey, 2011 – India
  • Makdiops montigena (Simon, 1889) (type) – India, Nepal
  • Makdiops nilgirensis (Reimoser, 1934) – India
  • Makdiops shiva Crews & Harvey, 2011 – India

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Makdiops Crews & Harvey, 2011". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  2. Crews, S. C.; Harvey, M. S. (2011). "The spider family Selenopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Australasia and the Oriental region". ZooKeys. 99: 1–103. doi:10.3897/zookeys.99.723.


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