Encolpius

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{About||the character in the Satyricon|Satyricon#Principal characters|the ancient Roman writer|Eucolpius}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Encolpius guaraniticus 242337483.jpeg

| image_caption = Encolpius guaraniticus

| taxon = Encolpius

| authority = Simon, 1900

| type_species = E. albobarbatus

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1900

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| E. albobarbatus|Simon, 1900 – Brazil

| E. fimbriatus|Crane, 1943 – Venezuela

| E. guaraniticus|Galiano, 1968 – Argentina}}

}}

Encolpius is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1900| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=27–61| volume=69| doi=10.1080/21686351.1900.12280033| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|06}} it contains only three species, found only in Argentina, Venezuela, and Brazil: E. albobarbatus, E. fimbriatus, and E. guaraniticus.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Encolpius Simon, 1900| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-07| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2631| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}