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Genus of spiders
Episinus is a
genus of
comb-footed spiders that was first described by
Pierre André Latreille in 1809.
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They can grow up to 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long.
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As of September 2022
[update] it contains forty-seven species and one subspecies, found worldwide:
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E. affinis Bösenberg &
Strand, 1906 –
India,
Russia (Far East),
Korea,
Taiwan,
Japan
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E. algiricus Lucas, 1846 –
Portugal,
Spain,
France,
Italy, Northwest Africa, Malta?
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E. amoenus
Banks, 1911 – USA,
Mexico
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E. angulatus (
Blackwall, 1836) –
Europe,
Turkey, Russia (
Europe to West Siberia), Central Asia
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E. antipodianus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 –
New Zealand
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E. baoshanensis Liu, Irfan & Peng, 2019 –
China
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E. bilineatus Simon, 1894 –
South Africa
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E. bimucronatus (Simon, 1895) –
Venezuela
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E. bishopi (Lessert, 1929) –
Congo
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E. bonjovi Lin & Li, 2021 – China
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E. cavernicola (
Kulczyński, 1897) –
Croatia,
Slovenia
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E. chikunii Yoshida, 1985 – Japan
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E. emanus Levi, 1964 –
Panama
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E. fontinalis Levy, 1985 –
Israel
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E. garisus Buckup & Marques, 1992 – Brazil
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E. gibbus Zhu & Wang, 1995 – China
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E. hickmani
Caporiacco, 1949 –
Kenya
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E. immundus (
Keyserling, 1884) – Peru, Brazil
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E. implexus (Simon, 1894) – Venezuela
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E. israeliensis Levy, 1985 – Israel
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E. jiangweni Lin & Li, 2021 – China
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E. kitazawai Yaginuma, 1958 – Russia (Kurile Is.), Japan
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E. longabdomenus Zhu, 1998 – China
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E. macrops Simon, 1903 –
Equatorial Guinea, Congo
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E. maculipes Cavanna, 1876 – Europe,
Algeria, Turkey,
Caucasus
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E. maderianus Kulczyński, 1905 – Canary Is., Madeira
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E. makiharai Okuma, 1994 – Taiwan
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E. marignaci (Lessert, 1933) –
Angola
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E. meruensis
Tullgren, 1910 –
Tanzania
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E. mikhailovi Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
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E. mucronatus (Simon, 1894) –
Singapore
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E. nanyue Yin, 2012 – China
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E. nubilus Yaginuma, 1960 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Is.
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E. pentagonalis Chakrabarti, 2013 – India
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E. porteri (Simon, 1901) –
Chile,
Argentina
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E. punctisparsus Yoshida, 1983 – Taiwan
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E. rhomboidalis (Simon, 1895) –
Malaysia,
Myanmar, Singapore
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E. similanus Urquhart, 1893 – New Zealand
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E. similitudus Urquhart, 1893 – New Zealand
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E. taibeli Caporiacco, 1949 –
Ethiopia
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E. theridioides Simon, 1873 – Spain, France (mainland,
Corsica), Italy (
Sardinia)
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E. tongyani Lin & Li, 2021 – China
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E. truncatus Latreille, 1809 (
type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus,
Iran
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E. typicus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
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E. variacorneus Chen, Peng & Zhao, 1992 – China
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E. xiushanicus Zhu, 1998 – China
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E. yoshidai Okuma, 1994 – Taiwan
Formerly included:
- E. bicorniger (Simon, 1894) (Transferred to
Janula)
- E. bicornis (Thorell, 1881) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. bicruciatus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. bifrons (Thorell, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. caudifer Dönitz & Strand, 1906 (Transferred to
Moneta)
- E. coercerveus Roberts, 1978 (Transferred to Moneta)
- E. conifer (Urquhart, 1886) (Transferred to Moneta)
- E. erythrophthalmus (Simon, 1894) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. gratiosus Bryant, 1940 (Transferred to
Neopisinus)
- E. longipes Keyserling, 1884 (Transferred to Neopisinus)
- E. luteolimbatus (Thorell, 1898) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. malachinus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. marginatus (Thorell, 1898) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. minusculus Gertsch, 1936 (Transferred to
Chrosiothes)
- E. mirabilis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Transferred to Moneta)
- E. modestus (Thorell, 1898) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. nebulosus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. ocreatus (Simon, 1909) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. paiki Seo, 1985 (Transferred to Moneta)
- E. pictus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. recifensis Levi, 1964 (Transferred to Neopisinus)
- E. salobrensis (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. spinigeroides Zhu & Song, 1992 (Transferred to Moneta)
- E. tanikawai Yoshida, 1991 (Transferred to Moneta)
- E. taprobanicus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
- E. yoshimurai Yoshida, 1983 (Transferred to Moneta)
Nomen dubium
- E. americanus Nicolet, 1849
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"Gen. Episinus Walckenaer, 1809". World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022.
doi:
10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
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e Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 20.
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Latreille, P. A. (1809). Genera crustaceorum et insectorum. Paris 4. pp. 370–371.