Orthonops is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1924.[2]

Orthonops
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Caponiidae
Genus: Orthonops
Chamberlin, 1924[1]
Type species
O. overtus
Chamberlin, 1924
Species

10, see text

Species

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As of April 2022 it contains 10 species in the southwest United States and Mexico:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Orthonops Chamberlin, 1924". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. ^ Chamberlin, R. V. (1924). "The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 12: 561–694.
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