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| Epicratinus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Zodariidae |
| Genus: | Epicratinus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 |
| Type species | |
| Epicratinus amazonicus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 | |
| Species | |
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Epicratinus is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 2005 by Jocqué & Baert.[1]
Species
[edit]As of October 2025[update] it contains twenty five species, found in South America:[2][3]
- Epicratinus amazonicus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (type) – Brazil
- Epicratinus anakin Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus arlequina Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus baraka Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus dookan Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus ehonda Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus leia Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus luke Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus maozinha Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus mauru Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus omegarugal Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus pegasus Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus perfidus (Jocqué & Baert, 2002) – Bolivia, Brazil
- Epicratinus petropolitanus (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil
- Epicratinus pikachu Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus pugionifer Jocqué & Baert, 2005 – Brazil
- Epicratinus raiden Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus smeagol Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus stitch Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus takutu Jocqué & Baert, 2005 – Guyana, Brazil
- Epicratinus temuerai Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus vader Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus yoda Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
- Epicratinus zangief Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
- Epicratinus zelda Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
References
[edit]- ↑ Jocqué, Rudy; Baert, Léon (2005). "Two new neotropical genera of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 75: 119–133.
- ↑ Gonçalves, Ricardo Antonio; Brescovit, Antonio Domingos (25 March 2024). "Description of nine new species of the Neotropical spider genus Epicratinus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Brazil". Zootaxa. 5428 (4): 451–479. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5428.4.1. PMID 39645815. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ↑ Gonçalves, Ricardo Antonio; Brescovit, Antonio Domingos (2020-11-30). "Taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of Neotropical spider genus Epicratinus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (Araneae: Zodariidae) with description of eleven new species". Zootaxa. 4886 (1): 1–77. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4886.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311252.
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