Echemella

Echemella is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1906.[3]

Echemella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Echemella
Strand, 1906[1]
Type species
E. quinquedentata
Strand, 1906
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains six species, mostly from Ethiopia:[1]

  • Echemella occulta (Benoit, 1965) – Congo
  • Echemella pavesii (Simon, 1909) – Ethiopia
  • Echemella quinquedentata Strand, 1906 (type) – Ethiopia
  • Echemella sinuosa Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007 – Ethiopia
  • Echemella strandi (Caporiacco, 1940) – Ethiopia
  • Echemella tenuis Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007 – Ethiopia

References

  1. "Gen. Echemella Strand, 1906". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Murphy, J.; Russell-Smith, A. (2007). "A revision of the spider genus Echemella Strand 1906 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". Journal of Afrotropical Zoology. 3: 16.
  3. Strand, E. (1906). "Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 30: 655–690.


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