# Nops (spider)

Nops is a genus of medium-sized South American, Central American, and Caribbean spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Alexander Macleay in 1839. It has a great richness on the Caribbean islands, and most mainland species are located in high proportion toward the Caribbean coast. It likely has a neotropical distribution, though most species of South America are known only from the coast of Colombia and Venezuela, including the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire and Trinidad.

## Monophyly

Nops have subsegmeted tarsi, as well as two other leg characters often found in nopine genera: a ventral translucent keel on the anterior metatarsi and a translucent membrane between the anterior metatarsi and tarsi. These spiders can be distinguished from similar genera with these modifications by their elongated unpaired claw on the anterior legs, extending dorsally between the paired claws.

## Species

As of April 2019 it contains thirty-eight species plus one fossil in Dominican amber:
* Nops agnarssoni Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Puerto Rico
* Nops alexenriquei Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
* Nops amazonas Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
* Nops anisitsi Strand, 1909 – Paraguay
* Nops bahia Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
* Nops bellulus Chamberlin, 1916 – Peru
* Nops blandus (Bryant, 1942) – Virgin Is. (US and UK)
* Nops branicki (Taczanowski, 1874) – French Guiana
* Nops campeche Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica
* Nops coccineus Simon, 1892 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (St. Vincent)
* Nops enae Sánchez-Ruiz, 2004 – Cuba
* Nops ernestoi Sánchez-Ruiz, 2005 – Hispaniola (Dominican Rep.)
* Nops farhati Prosen, 1949 – Argentina
* Nops finisfurvus Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Virgin Is. (UK), Puerto Rico (Culebra Is.)
* Nops flutillus Chickering, 1967 – Curaçao
* Nops gertschi Chickering, 1967 – Hispaniola (Dominican Rep.)
* Nops glaucus Hasselt, 1887 – Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire)
* Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, 1839 (type) – Cuba, Bahamas
* Nops hispaniola Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón, 2015 – Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Rep.)
* Nops ipojuca Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
* Nops itapetinga Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
* Nops jaragua Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Dominican Rep.
* Nops largus Chickering, 1967 – Panama
* Nops maculatus Simon, 1893 – Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana
* Nops mathani Simon, 1893 – Brazil
* Nops meridionalis Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil
* Nops minas Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
* Nops navassa Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Navassa Is. (Haiti or USA)
* Nops nitidus Simon, 1907 – Brazil
* Nops pallidus Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Cuba
* Nops pocone Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
* Nops quito Dupérré, 2014 – Ecuador
* Nops siboney Sánchez-Ruiz, 2004 – Cuba
* Nops sublaevis Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
* Nops tico Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama
* Nops toballus Chickering, 1967 – Jamaica
* Nops ursumus Chickering, 1967 – Panama
* Nops variabilis Keyserling, 1877 – Colombia, Venezuela

## Image gallery

* Nops craneae Chickering, carapace
* Nops enae Sánchez-Ruiz
* Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, female with egg sac
* Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, male
* Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, claws on leg I
* Nops guanabacoae MacLeay, tarso of leg I
* Nops siboney Sánchez-Ruiz, ventral view