Anepsion Explained

Anepsion is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.^[1]

Species

it contains seventeen species:^[2]

• Anepsion buchi Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
• Anepsion depressum (Thorell, 1877) – China, Myanmar to Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Anepsion d. birmanicum (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
• Anepsion fuscolimbatum (Simon, 1901) – Malaysia
• Anepsion hammeni Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea
• Anepsion jacobsoni Chrysanthus, 1961 – Indonesia
• Anepsion japonicum (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Thailand, Japan
• Anepsion maculatum (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Anepsion maritatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India, Sri Lanka, China to Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Anepsion peltoides (Thorell, 1878) – Australia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.)
• Anepsion reimoseri Chrysanthus, 1961 – New Guinea
• Anepsion rhomboides (L. Koch, 1867) – Samoa
• Anepsion roeweri Chrysanthus, 1961 – Taiwan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea (Riouw Is.)
• Anepsion semialbum (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
• Anepsion villosum (Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Anepsion wichmanni (Kulczyński, 1911) – New Guinea
• Anepsion wolffi Chrysanthus, 1969 – Solomon Is.

Notes and References

1. Strand. E.. 1929. Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes.. Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 1–29. 20.
2. Web site: Gen. Anepsion Strand, 1929. World Spider Catalog. 2019-05-11. Natural History Museum Bern.