Cynorta C.L. Koch 1839

Type species. Cosmetus conspersus Perty, 1833, by subsequent designation of Pickard-Cambridge 1(904). Diagnosis. See Kury et al. (2007).

Included species. Cynorta currently has 147 species (Kury 2003; Kury et al. 2007, Kury & Barros 2014), which is unduly inflated by the extremely broad diagnosis of Goodnight & Goodnight (1953), which took into consideration only tarsal counts of leg I. Many of those species should be included elsewhere, but a complete review is a herculean task which would take years. The type species— Cynorta conspersa (Perty, 1833) —has been recently redescribed (Kury et al. 2007). A subgroup of species which (contrary to C. conspersa) show sexual dimorphism in the cheliceral hand, e.g., Cynorta vestita Roewer, 1912 and Cynorta pictoides sp. nov., belong here under the current diagnosis of the genus as well.