Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.
As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena, and breathe using two pairs of tracheae rather than book lungs. They are agile, nocturnal hunters, that hide by day in a variety of silk-lined retreats.
Species
it contains ten species: Caponia braunsi Purcell, 1904 – South Africa Caponia capensis Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique Caponia chelifera Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique Caponia forficifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa Caponia hastifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Mozambique Caponia karrooica Purcell, 1904 – South Africa Caponia natalensis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (type) – Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa Caponia secunda Pocock, 1900 – South Africa Caponia simoni Purcell, 1904 – South Africa Caponia spiralifera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
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