Coriarachne

Coriarachne
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Superfamily:	Thomisoidea
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Coriarachne
Species:	Brunneipes Depressa Fulvipes Melancholica Nigrostriata

Coriarachne is a genus of spider under the Thomisidae family.

Species

Coriarachne brunneipes (Banks, 1893) — USA, Canada, Alaska
Coriarachne depressa (C. L. Koch, 1837) — Palearctic
Coriarachne fulvipes (Karsch, 1879) — Korea, Japan
Coriarachne melancholica (Simon, 1880) — China
Coriarachne nigrostriata (Simon, 1886) — Vietnam

Info

A small, but world-wide genus, Coriarachne is found in boreal and temperate regions. The greatest number of species are found in North America where there are four. Coriarachne depressa (C. L. Koch) is the only species recorded from Europe . Little is known of the Oriental fauna except for C fulvipes (Karsch), which was recorded from Japan by Yaginuma (1970), and Cnigrostriata Simon is cited by Bonnet (1956), from Indochina. Spiders of the genus Coriarachne are rather slow-moving and robust with the typica l crab-like appearance characteristic of the subfamily Thomisinae . As with the rest of the subfamily, species of Coriarachne wait to ambush their prey rather than actively pursuing it. They are found almost exclusively on tree bark, wooden fence posts and the like where their color camouflages them. Often these spiders will congregate under loose bark, leaf litter, or similar situations to spend the winter either in the adult or penultimate stage (Jennings, 1972 ; Holmquist, 1926 ; Kaston, 1948 ; Lowrie, 1948).