Varioonops is a genus of goblin spiders that was first described by A. Bolzern & Norman I. Platnick in 2013.[2]

Varioonops
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Oonopidae
Genus: Varioonops
Bolzern & Platnick, 2013[1]
Type species
V. cafista
Bolzern & Platnick, 2013
Species

23, see text

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains twenty-three species, found in Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, and Costa Rica:[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Varioonops Bolzern & Platnick, 2013". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  2. ^ Bolzern, A.; Platnick, N. I. (2013). "The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Varioonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)". American Museum Novitates (3791): 1–66. doi:10.1206/3791.1. S2CID 85892438.