Echemoides

Echemoides is a genus of South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.^[3] Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to the ground spiders in 1993.^[2]

Echemoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Echemoides Mello-Leitão, 1938[1]
Type species
E. giganteus Mello-Leitão, 1938
Species
15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Zodariops Mello-Leitão, 1939[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species:^[1]

• Echemoides aguilari Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Peru
• Echemoides argentinus (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Argentina
• Echemoides balsa Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Argentina
• Echemoides cekalovici Platnick, 1983 – Chile
• Echemoides chilensis Platnick, 1983 – Chile
• Echemoides gayi (Simon, 1904) – Chile
• Echemoides giganteus Mello-Leitão, 1938 (type) – Argentina
• Echemoides illapel Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
• Echemoides malleco Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
• Echemoides mauryi Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Paraguay, Argentina
• Echemoides penai Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Peru, Chile
• Echemoides penicillatus (Mello-Leitão, 1942) – Paraguay, Argentina
• Echemoides rossi Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
• Echemoides schlingeri Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile
• Echemoides tofo Platnick & Shadab, 1979 – Chile