Euryopis

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Euryopis
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
E. funebris from Virginia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Euryopis
Menge, 1868[1]
Type species
E. flavomaculata
(C. L. Koch, 1836)
Species

75, see text

Synonyms[1]

Euryopis is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1868.[4]

Species[edit]

As of May 2020 it contains seventy-five species, found all over the world:[1]

Formerly included:

  • E. dentata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. emertoni Bryant, 1933 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. euterpe Denis, 1954 (Transferred to Coscinida)
  • E. floricola Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. georgiana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. inornata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. longiventris Simon, 1905 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. lutea Keyserling, 1891 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
  • E. maculata Keyserling, 1891 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. mustelina Simon, 1888 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
  • E. nigripes Banks, 1929 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. ornata Bryant, 1933 (Transferred to Stemmops)
  • E. orniceps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 (Transferred to Stemmops)
  • E. pumicata Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. pusilla Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Dipoena)
  • E. taczanowskii Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Emertonella)
  • E. tuberosa Wunderlich, 1987 (Transferred to Eurypoena)
  • E. variabilis Keyserling, 1886 (Transferred to Dipoena)

Nomina dubia

  • E. brevis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871
  • E. gracilis (Holmberg, 1876
  • E. haematostigma (Blackwall, 1864
  • E. inscripta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
  • E. limbata (Walckenaer, 1841
  • E. modesta Schenkel, 1936

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Euryopis Menge, 1868". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  2. ^ a b c d Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 15.
  3. ^ a b Levi, H. W. (1954). "Spiders of the genus Euryopis from North and Central America (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1666): 3.
  4. ^ Menge, A. (1868). "Preussische Spinnen. II. Abtheilung". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 2: 153–218.

External links[edit]

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