Euprosthenops Explained
Euprosthenops is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[1]
Species
it contains ten species and one subspecies, found only in Africa, India and Israel:[2]
- Euprosthenops australis Simon, 1898 – Senegal, Nigeria, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa
- Euprosthenops bayaonianus (Brito Capello, 1867) (type) – West, Central, East Africa
- Euprosthenops benoiti Blandin, 1976 – Rwanda
- Euprosthenops biguttatus Roewer, 1955 – Congo, Namibia
- Euprosthenops ellioti (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India
- Euprosthenops insperatus Zonstein & Marusik, 2021 – Israel
- Euprosthenops pavesii Lessert, 1928 – Central, East Africa
- Euprosthenops proximus Lessert, 1916 – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Euprosthenops p. maximus Blandin, 1976 – Ivory Coast
- Euprosthenops schenkeli (Roewer, 1955) – East Africa
- Euprosthenops wuehlischi Roewer, 1955 – Namibia
See also
Notes and References
- Pocock. R. I.. 1897. Descriptions of two new species of scorpions from East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 116–119. 19. 6. 10.1080/00222939708680510. Reginald Innes Pocock.
- 2021. Gen. Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897. World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. 22 October 2021.