Otiothops MacLeay, 1839

Castro, Diogo, Baptista, Renner, Grismado, Cristian & Ramírez, Martín, 2015, New species and records of Otiothopinae from the Southern Atlantic Rainforest, with notes on the claw tufts in Fernandezina Birabén (Araneae: Palpimanidae), Zootaxa 4012 (3), pp. 465-478 : 466

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6094464
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scientific name	Otiothops MacLeay, 1839
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Genus Otiothops MacLeay, 1839 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Otiothops walckenaeri MacLeay, 1839 , by monotypy.

Remarks. Species belonging to Otiothops differ from other Otiothopinae by having dense claw tufts on tarsi II–IV and closely spaced posterior median eyes ( Platnick 1975; Piacentini et al. 2013). The genus is distributed from the West Indies and Panama to Argentina and Uruguay (except Chile) ( Piacentini et al. 2013; World Spider Catalog 2015).