Anepsion

Anepsion
Anepsion sp., (Central Himalayas, India)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Anepsion Strand, 1929[1]
Type species
Epeira rhomboides L. Koch, 1867
Species
17, see text

Anepsion is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains seventeen species:[1]

• Anepsion buchi Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
• Anepsion depressum (Thorell, 1877) – China, Myanmar to Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Anepsion d. birmanicum (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
• Anepsion fuscolimbatum (Simon, 1901) – Malaysia
• Anepsion hammeni Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea
• Anepsion jacobsoni Chrysanthus, 1961 – Indonesia
• Anepsion japonicum (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Thailand, Japan
• Anepsion maculatum (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Anepsion maritatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India, Sri Lanka, China to Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Anepsion peltoides (Thorell, 1878) – Australia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.)
• Anepsion reimoseri Chrysanthus, 1961 – New Guinea
• Anepsion rhomboides (L. Koch, 1867) – Samoa
• Anepsion roeweri Chrysanthus, 1961 – Taiwan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea (Riouw Is.)
• Anepsion semialbum (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
• Anepsion villosum (Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Anepsion wichmanni (Kulczyński, 1911) – New Guinea
• Anepsion wolffi Chrysanthus, 1969 – Solomon Is.

References

1. "Gen. Anepsion Strand, 1929". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
2. Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.