Euryopis

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Palaeogene| Present}}

| taxon = Euryopis

| image = Cobweb_Spider_-_Euryopis_funebris,_Woodbridge,_Virginia.jpg

| image_caption = E. funebris from Virginia

| authority = Menge, 1868

| type_species = E. flavomaculata

| type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1836)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 75, see text

| synonyms =

  • Acanthomysmena Mello-Leitão, 1944{{cite journal| last1=Levi| first1=H. W.| last2=Levi| first2=L. R.| year=1962| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=127| page=15}}
  • Atkinia Strand, 1929 (removed from S of Dipoena Thorell, 1869)
  • Diaprocorus Simon, 1895
  • Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1954| title=Spiders of the genus Euryopis from North and Central America (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=American Museum Novitates| issue=1666| page=3}}
  • Mufila Bryant, 1949
  • Phylarchus Simon, 1889

| synonyms_ref =

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Euryopis is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1868.{{cite journal| last=Menge| first=A.| year=1868| title=Preussische Spinnen. II. Abtheilung| journal=Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig| pages=153–218| volume=2| author-link=Anton_Menge}}

Species

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| title = Euryopis

| direction = vertical

| image1 = Euryopis flavomaculata.JPG

| caption1 = Euryopis flavomaculata

| image2 = Euryopis splendens (16030307646).jpg

| caption2 = Euryopis splendens

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{{as of|2020|05}} it contains seventy-five species, found all over the world:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Euryopis Menge, 1868| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2020-06-19| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3482| doi=10.24436/2}}

Formerly included:

  • E. dentata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. emertoni Bryant, 1933 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. euterpe Denis, 1954 (Transferred to Coscinida)
  • E. floricola Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. georgiana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. inornata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. longiventris Simon, 1905 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. lutea Keyserling, 1891 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
  • E. maculata Keyserling, 1891 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. mustelina Simon, 1888 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
  • E. nigripes Banks, 1929 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. ornata Bryant, 1933 (Transferred to Stemmops)
  • E. orniceps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 (Transferred to Stemmops)
  • E. pumicata Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. pusilla Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. taczanowskii Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. tuberosa Wunderlich, 1987 (Transferred to Eurypoena)
  • E. variabilis Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Dipoena)

Nomina dubia

  • E. brevis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871
  • E. gracilis (Holmberg, 1876
  • E. haematostigma (Blackwall, 1864
  • E. inscripta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
  • E. limbata (Walckenaer, 1841
  • E. modesta Schenkel, 1936

See also

References

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