Elaver

Elaver Temporal range:
E. excepta
E. excepta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Clubionidae
Genus:	Elaver O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898
Type species
E. tigrina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898
Species
52, see text
Synonyms
Clubionoides Heterochemmis

Elaver is a genus of sac spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.

E. excepta — front of head (male), palpus (male), back enlarged four times to show markings (female)

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes 52 species:

• Elaver achuca (Roddy, 1966) – United States
• Elaver albicans (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba, Jamaica
• Elaver arawakan Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Haiti
• Elaver balboae (Chickering, 1937) – Panama to Brazil, Cuba
• Elaver barroana (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
• Elaver beni Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Peru, Brazil, Bolivia
• Elaver brevipes (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil, Argentina
• Elaver calcarata (Kraus, 1955) – Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica
• Elaver candelaria Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Mexico
• Elaver carlota (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
• Elaver chisosa (Roddy, 1966) – United States
• Elaver crinophora (Franganillo, 1934) – Cuba
• Elaver crocota (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico
• Elaver darwichi Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Panama, Ecuador
• Elaver depuncta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 – Mexico
• Elaver elaver (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
• Elaver excepta (L. Koch, 1866) – Canada, United States, Caribbean
• Elaver gibarrai Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2025 – Mexico
• Elaver grandivulvae (Mello-Leitão, 1930) – Brazil, Bolivia
• Elaver helenae Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Mexico
• Elaver hortoni (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
• Elaver implicata (Gertsch, 1941) – Hispaniola
• Elaver juana (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba, Bahama Is.
• Elaver juruti Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Brazil
• Elaver kohlsi (Gertsch & Jellison, 1939) – United States
• Elaver linguata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Guatemala
• Elaver lizae Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Costa Rica
• Elaver lutescens (Schmidt, 1971) – Panama to Brazil
• Elaver madera (Roddy, 1966) – United States
• Elaver mirabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua
• Elaver mulaiki (Gertsch, 1935) – United States
• Elaver multinotata (Chickering, 1937) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil
• Elaver orvillei (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
• Elaver placida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 – Mexico
• Elaver portoricensis (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico, Virgin Is.
• Elaver quadrata (Kraus, 1955) – El Salvador
• Elaver richardi (Gertsch, 1941) – Honduras
• Elaver sericea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 – Mexico
• Elaver shinguito Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Colombia, Peru, Brazil
• Elaver sigillata (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama, Colombia, Peru, Brazil
• Elaver simplex (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Guatemala
• Elaver tenera (Franganillo, 1935) – Cuba
• Elaver tenuis (Franganillo, 1935) – Cuba
• Elaver texana (Gertsch, 1933) – United States, Mexico
• Elaver tigrina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 – Mexico, Costa Rica (type species)
• Elaver tourinhoae Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Colombia, Brazil
• Elaver tricuspis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Guatemala, Panama
• Elaver tristani (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica
• Elaver tumivulva (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica
• Elaver valvula (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Panama
• Elaver vieirae Saturnino & Bonaldo, 2015 – Brazil, Peru
• Elaver wheeleri (Roewer, 1933) – United States, Mexico

External links

• Citizen science observations for Elaver at iNaturalist

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