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Euprosthenops
| Euprosthenops | |
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Scientific classification 
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| : | [[Template:Taxonomy/Euprosthenops]] Pocock, 1897[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. bayaonianus (Brito Capello, 1867)
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| Species | |
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9, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Euprosthenops is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[3]
Species[edit]
As of June 2019[update] it contains nine species and one subspecies, found only in Africa and India:[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 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[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pocock, R. I. (1897). "Descriptions of two new species of scorpions from East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19 (6): 116–119.