Encymachus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Encymachus

| authority = Simon, 1902

| type_species = E. livingstonei

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| E. hesperus|Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia

| E. livingstonei|Simon, 1902 – Africa}}

}}

Encymachus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1902| title=Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=363–406| volume=46| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|06}} it contains only two species, found only in Africa: E. hesperus and E. livingstonei.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Encymachus Simon, 1902| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-07| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2632| doi=10.24436/2}}