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Echemoides

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon=Echemoides

|authority=Mello-Leitão, 1938

|type_species=E. giganteus

|type_species_authority=Mello-Leitão, 1938

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=15, see text

|synonyms=

  • Zodariops Mello-Leitão, 1939{{cite journal|last=Platnick|first=N. I.|year=1993|title=Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980|journal=Advances in Spider Taxonomy|volume=1988|publisher=The New York Entomological Society, New York|page=648}}

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Echemoides is a genus of South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.{{cite journal |last=Mello-Leitão |first=C. F. de |year=1938 |title=Algunas arañas nuevas de la Argentina |journal=Revista del Museo de la Plata |pages=89–118 |volume=1 |series=New Series}}{{clarify|reason=issue?|date=April 2021}} Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to the ground spiders in 1993.

Species

{{as of|2019|05}} it contains fifteen species:{{cite journal|title=Gen. Echemoides Mello-Leitão, 1938|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/928|doi=10.24436/2|last1=Gloor|first1=Daniel|last2=Nentwig|first2=Wolfgang|last3=Blick|first3=Theo|last4=Kropf|first4=Christian}}

References

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Category:Gnaphosidae genera

Category:Gnaphosidae

Category:Spiders of South America

Category:Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão

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