Tailed Cellar Spiders

Crossopriza Simon, 1893

Type species: Artema pristina Simon, 1890

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 316

(after Huber 2022): Long-legged pholcids with spotted leg femora and tibiae, abdomen dorso-posteriorly often angular or pointed, females with paired stridulatory apparatus between carapace and abdomen. Distinguished from similar genera (Maghreba, Stygopholcus, Holocnemus) by combination of: male chelicerae with only one pair of modified (cone-shaped) hairs at tips of main cheliceral apophyses (in contrast to Stygopholcus, H. reini, and H. caudatus); male pedipalp coxa with rounded retrolateral hump, without distinct process (in contrast to Maghreba); male pedipalp femur without retrolateral proximal process (in contrast to Stygopholcus and Maghreba); male palpal femur without dorsal process (in contrast to Maghreba); male palpal tarsal organ capsulate (in contrast to Stygopholcus); procursus usually with distinct prolateral hump set with numerous setae; procursus tip not strongly bent towards dorsal (in contrast to Maghreba); procursus usually without transparent membranous process at tip (in contrast to Maghreba; present in C. soudanensis); genital bulb without slender dorsal process (in contrast to Stygopholcus); distal (main) bulbal sclerite without deep retrolateral pocket (in contrast to Maghreba).