Epocilla praetextata

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Epocilla praetextata
male from Thailand
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Epocilla
Species:
E. praetextata
Binomial name
Epocilla praetextata
Thorell, 1887

Epocilla praetextata is a species of jumping spider in the genus Epocilla. It is the type species of its genus and is found across South and Southeast Asia.[1]

Epocilla praetextata was first described by Swedish arachnologist Tamerlan Thorell in 1887 from specimens collected in Myanmar (then Burma).[2] The species serves as the type species for the genus Epocilla, which Thorell established in the same publication.[1]

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