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Chiasmopes signatus
Chiasmopes signatus is a species of spider in the family Pisauridae. It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as the Grahamstown Chiasmopes nursery-web spider.
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Description
Chiasmopes signatus is distinguished from Chiasmopes lineatus from Durban by having the anterior lateral eyes two diameters instead of one diameter apart, the anterior medians about a diameter instead of half a diameter apart, and only equal to the radius of the posterior medians.
Range & habitat
Chiasmopes signatus is endemic to the Eastern Cape, where it is presently known only from two localities at 552 m altitude. The known localities are Grahamstown (now Makhanda) and Bathurst.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
The species is a sheet-web spider sampled from the Thicket biome. Nothing more is known about their behaviour.
Wikipedia: “Habitat and ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 657043.