Epicratinus

Epicratinus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zodariidae
Genus:
Jocqué & Baert, 2005
Type species
Epicratinus amazonicus
Jocqué & Baert, 2005
Species

25, see text

Epicratinus is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 2005 by Jocqué & Baert.[1]

Species

As of September 2022 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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): zootaxa.4886.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4886.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311252.