Echemus (spider)

Echemus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Echemus Simon, 1878[1]
Type species
E. angustifrons (Westring, 1861)
Species
22, see text
Synonyms[1]
Boreoechemus Lohmander, 1942[2]

Echemus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1878.[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains twenty-two species:[1]

• Echemus angustifrons (Westring, 1861) (type) – Europe to Central Asia
  • Echemus a. balticus (Lohmander, 1942) – Sweden
• Echemus chaetognathus (Thorell, 1887) – Myanmar
• Echemus chaperi Simon, 1885 – India
• Echemus chebanus (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Echemus chialanus Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
• Echemus dilutus (L. Koch, 1873) – Australia (Queensland)
• Echemus erutus Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
• Echemus escalerai Simon, 1909 – Morocco
• Echemus ghecuanus (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Echemus hamipalpis (Kroneberg, 1875) – Uzbekistan
• Echemus incinctus Simon, 1907 – West Africa
• Echemus inermis Mello-Leitão, 1939 – Brazil
• Echemus lacertosus Simon, 1907 – São Tomé and Príncipe
• Echemus levyi Kovblyuk & Seyyar, 2009 – Turkey
• Echemus modestus Kulczyński, 1899 – Madeira
• Echemus orinus (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Echemus pictus Kulczyński, 1911 – Indonesia (Java)
• Echemus plapoensis (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Echemus scutatus (Simon, 1880) – Algeria
• Echemus sibiricus Marusik & Logunov, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia)
• Echemus viveki Gajbe, 1989 – India

References

1. "Gen. Echemus Simon, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
2. Tullgren, A. (1946). Svenska spindelfauna: 3. Egentliga spindlar. Araneae. Fam. 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. Entomologiska Föreningen, Stockholm. p. 111.
3. Simon, E. (1878). Les arachnides de France.