Echemoides Explained
Echemoides is a genus of South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.[1] Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to the ground spiders in 1993.
Species
it contains fifteen species:[2]
- Echemoides aguilari Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Peru
- Echemoides argentinus (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Argentina
- Echemoides balsa Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Argentina
- Echemoides cekalovici Platnick, 1983 – Chile
- Echemoides chilensis Platnick, 1983 – Chile
- Echemoides gayi (Simon, 1904) – Chile
- Echemoides giganteus Mello-Leitão, 1938 (type) – Argentina
- Echemoides illapel Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
- Echemoides malleco Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
- Echemoides mauryi Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Paraguay, Argentina
- Echemoides penai Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Peru, Chile
- Echemoides penicillatus (Mello-Leitão, 1942) – Paraguay, Argentina
- Echemoides rossi Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
- Echemoides schlingeri Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
- Echemoides tofo Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
Notes and References
- Mello-Leitão . C. F. de . 1938 . Algunas arañas nuevas de la Argentina . Revista del Museo de la Plata . 89–118 . 1 . New Series.
- Gen. Echemoides Mello-Leitão, 1938. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.
