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Caponia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Caponiidae
Genus:	Caponia Simon, 1887
Type species
C. natalensis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)
Species
10, see text

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

As of April 2022 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

References

1. ^ "Gen. Caponia Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
2. Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.
3. Leroy, Astri; Leroy, John (2003). Spiders of Southern Africa. Struik. p. 83. ISBN 9781868729449.

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