Echinax Explained

Echinax is a genus of Asian and African corinnid sac spiders first described by Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold in 2001.^[1]

Species

it contains twelve species:^[2]

• Echinax anlongensis Yang, Song & Zhu, 2004 – China
• Echinax bosmansi (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Echinax clara Haddad, 2012 – Ghana, Congo
• Echinax hesperis Haddad, 2012 – Ivory Coast
• Echinax javana (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Java)
• Echinax longespina (Simon, 1910) – West, Central, East Africa
• Echinax natalensis Haddad, 2012 – South Africa
• Echinax oxyopoides (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) (type) – China, Indonesia (Sumatra), Borneo
• Echinax panache Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – China, India, Thailand
• Echinax scharffi Haddad, 2012 – Tanzania
• Echinax similis Haddad, 2012 – South Africa
• Echinax spatulata Haddad, 2012 – West, Central, East Africa

Notes and References

1. Book: Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.. 2001. Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]).
2. Gen. Echinax Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-19. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.