Asianopis

Asianopis
Male 'A. cornigera'
A. zhuanghaoyuni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Deinopidae
Genus:	Asianopis Lin & Li, 2020
Type species
A. zhuanghaoyuni Lin & Li, 2020
Species
33, see text

Asianopis is a genus of Asian net-casting spiders first described by Y. J. Lin, L. Shao and A. Hänggi in 2020.

Species

• 
  A. madagascariensis
• 
  A. wangi
• 
  A. wuchaoi

As of September 2025, this genus includes 37 species:

• Asianopis anchietae (Brito Capello, 1867) – Angola, South Africa
• Asianopis apo Omelko & Fomichev, 2025 – Philippines (Mindanao)
• Asianopis aruensis (Roewer, 1938) – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• Asianopis aspectans (Pocock, 1900) – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, South Africa
• Asianopis aurita (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico
• Asianopis camela (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
• Asianopis celebensis (Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Asianopis cornigera (Gerstaecker, 1873) – Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, South Africa
• Asianopis cylindrica (Pocock, 1898) – Mozambique, South Africa
• Asianopis dumogae (Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Asianopis fasciata (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland)
• Asianopis fasciculiger (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
• Asianopis giltayi (Lessert, 1930) – DR Congo
• Asianopis goalparaensis (Tikader & Malhotra, 1978) – India, Nepal
• Asianopis gorochovi Fomichev & Omelko, 2023 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Asianopis guineensis (Berland & Millot, 1940) – Guinea, Sierra Leone
• Asianopis kollari (Doleschall, 1859) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Ambon)
• Asianopis konplong (Logunov, 2018) – Vietnam
• Asianopis labangan (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2018) – Philippines
• Asianopis lini Omelko & Fomichev, 2025 – Malaysia (Borneo)
• Asianopis liukuensis (Yin, Griswold & Yan, 2002) – India, China, Malaysia (Borneo)
• Asianopis longipalpula (Strand, 1913) – DR Congo
• Asianopis luzonensis (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2018) – Philippines
• Asianopis madagascariensis (Lenz, 1886) – Madagascar
• Asianopis mediocris (Kulczyński, 1908) – Papua New Guinea
• Asianopis naumenkoi Omelko & Fomichev, 2025 – Philippines (Luzon)
• Asianopis ornata (Pocock, 1902) – Ethiopia
• Asianopis ravida (L. Koch, 1878) – Australia (Queensland)
• Asianopis reticulata (Rainbow, 1899) – Papua New Guinea
• Asianopis schomburgki (Karsch, 1878) – Australia (South Australia)
• Asianopis schoutedeni (Giltay, 1929) – DR Congo
• Asianopis subrufa (L. Koch, 1878) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania), New Zealand
• Asianopis tabida (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland)
• Asianopis unicolor (L. Koch, 1878) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Asianopis wangi Lin & Li, 2020 – China (Hainan)
• Asianopis wuchaoi Lin & Li, 2020 – China
• Asianopis zhuanghaoyuni Lin & Li, 2020 – China (type species)

See also

• Deinopis

Further reading

• Lin, Y. J.; Mikhailov, K. G.; Jäger, P.; et al. (2020). "Notes on two Asian species of the spider family Deinopidae (Aranei)". Arthropoda Selecta. 29 (4): 467–469. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.4.08. S2CID 234538189.

• Basumatary, P.; Caleb, J. T. D.; Das, S.; et al. (2020). "Redescription of the net-casting spider Asianopis goalparaensis (Tikader et Malhotra, 1978) comb.n. (Araneae: Deinopidae) from India". Arthropoda Selecta. 29 (3): 325–329. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.3.04. S2CID 226221386.

• Caleb, J. T. D. (2019). "The Indian net-casting spider name Deinopis goalparaensis Tikader & Malhotrais a nomen dubium (Araneae: Deinopidae)". Zootaxa. 4668 (1): 148–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4668.1.12. PMID 31716647. S2CID 203354332.

• Logunov, D. V. (2018). "A new ogre-faced spider species of the genus Deinopis MacLeay, 1839 from Vietnam (Aranei: Deinopidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 27 (2): 139–142. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.05. S2CID 182039445.