Echemoides

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Platnick, N. I. (1993). "Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980". Advances in Spider Taxonomy. 1988. The New York Entomological Society, New York: 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.[clarification needed]


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