Echemoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Echemoides
Mello-Leitão, 1938[1]
Type species
E. giganteus
Mello-Leitão, 1938
Species

15, see text

Synonyms[1]

Echemoides is a genus of South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.[3] Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to the ground spiders in 1993.[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains fifteen species:[1]

  • Echemoides aguilari Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Peru
  • Echemoides argentinus (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Argentina
  • Echemoides balsa Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Argentina
  • Echemoides cekalovici Platnick, 1983 – Chile
  • Echemoides chilensis Platnick, 1983 – Chile
  • Echemoides gayi (Simon, 1904) – Chile
  • Echemoides giganteus Mello-Leitão, 1938 (type) – Argentina
  • Echemoides illapel Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
  • Echemoides malleco Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
  • Echemoides mauryi Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Paraguay, Argentina
  • Echemoides penai Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Peru, Chile
  • Echemoides penicillatus (Mello-Leitão, 1942) – Paraguay, Argentina
  • Echemoides rossi Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
  • Echemoides schlingeri Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
  • Echemoides tofo Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Echemoides Mello-Leitão, 1938". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. 1 2 Platnick, N. I. (1993). "Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980". Advances in Spider Taxonomy. The New York Entomological Society, New York. 1988: 648.
  3. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1938). "Algunas arañas nuevas de la Argentina". Revista del Museo de la Plata. New Series. 1: 89–118.


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