Euprosthenops

Euprosthenops is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[3]

Euprosthenops
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Euprosthenops
Pocock, 1897[1]
Type species
E. bayaonianus
(Brito Capello, 1867)
Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Euprosthenomma Roewer, 1955[2]
  • Podophthalma Brito Capello, 1867[3]

Species

As of October 2021 it contains ten species and one subspecies, found only in Africa, India and Israel:[1]

  • 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

References
  1. "Gen. Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. Blandin, P. (1974). "Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines II. Définition du genre Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897 et description du genre Euprosthenopsis n. gen. (Araneae-Pisauridae-Pisaurinae)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 81: 946.
  3. Pocock, R. I. (1897). "Descriptions of two new species of scorpions from East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19 (6): 116–119.


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