Echemoides
Genus of spiders
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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]
| Echemoides | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
As of May 2019[update] 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