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Genus Syspira

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Miturgidae (Prowling Spiders)
Genus Syspira
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Numbers
Genus needs a revision; there could be only 3 species in North America, but the WSC lists 4 (published literature is outdated).
Size
Can reach up to 18mm in body length.
Range
analytica - Baja California to New Mexico (according to this NMSU website)
eclectica (longipes) - southwestern United States
pallida (might actually be a Zorocrates sp.; see remarks below) - southwestern United States; Nathan Banks' type species was found in Mesilla Park, New Mexico.
tigrina (synthetica) - southwestern United States
Habitat
Desert areas.
Season
Mature adults usually found in spring and summer.
Remarks
According to aces.nmsu.edu - Syspira longipes Simon (= S. eclectica Chamberlin) and Syspira tigrina Simon (= S. synthetica Chamberlin), but they are all listed as separate species on the World Spider Catalog. A revision of the genus is probably due.

According to Dr. W.J. Gertsch (pers. comm. to Jack Olmstead), Syspira pallida Banks is actually a Zorocrates (Zorocratidae). (Olmstead, 1975, unpublished thesis)
Print References
[For Syspira pallida] Banks, Nathan, 1904a. New genera and species of Nearctic spiders. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 12: 109-119. (available online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library; link takes you to specific page on S. pallida)

[unpublished thesis] Olmstead, Jack V., 1975. A revision of the spider genus Syspira. ~89 pages. (CSU Long Beach has a copy in their library or you need to contact Jack Olmstead himself or someone who has a copy in order to obtain this; it's not for sale anywhere)