Crossopriza Simon, 1893

Huber, Bernhard A., Colmenares, Pío A. & Ramirez, Martin J., 2014, Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae, Zootaxa 3847 (3), pp. 413-422 : 420

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scientific name	Crossopriza Simon, 1893
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Crossopriza Simon, 1893 View in CoL View at ENA

Crossopriza Simon, 1893b: 476 View in CoL –477.

Tibiosa González-Sponga, 2006: 10–11. Synonymized by Huber (2009). Ceratopholcus Spassky, 1934: 361 ; type species: Ceratopholcus maculipes Spassky, 1934 ; new synonymy.

Justification of synonymy. Crossopriza maculipes ( Spassky, 1934) View in CoL new combination. The type specimens (from Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan) seem to be lost. Spassky’s original description suggests a species very similar (or even identical) to Crossopriza lyoni (Blackwall, 1867) View in CoL . The examination (by BAH) of numerous specimens of Crossopriza View in CoL from Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (mostly in ZMMU) has shown that C. maculipes View in CoL is indeed very similar to but also clearly distinguishable from C. lyoni View in CoL . The two species share a second pair of apophyses frontally on the male chelicerae (a putative synapomorphy of a species group that also includes C. johncloudsleyi Deeleman-Reinhold View in CoL & van Harten, 2001 and several undescribed species; it is not present in the type species C. pristina Simon, 1890 View in CoL ). Geographically, C. maculipes View in CoL and C. lyoni View in CoL do not seem to overlap, and the only other species of Crossopriza View in CoL in the area mentioned above is an undescribed species with very different cheliceral armature and epigynum (definitely not the species described and illustrated by Spassky 1934).