| Echemoides | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae | 
| Family: | Gnaphosidae | 
| Genus: | Echemoides Mello-Leitão, 1938[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| E. giganteus Mello-Leitão, 1938  | |
| Species | |
| 
 15, see text  | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Echemoides is a genus of South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.[3] Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to the ground spiders in 1993.[2]
Species
As of May 2019 it contains fifteen species:[1]
- 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
 
References
- 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Echemoides Mello-Leitão, 1938". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
 - 1 2 Platnick, N. I. (1993). "Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980". Advances in Spider Taxonomy. The New York Entomological Society, New York. 1988: 648.
 - ↑ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1938). "Algunas arañas nuevas de la Argentina". Revista del Museo de la Plata. New Series. 1: 89–118.
 
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