Euprosthenops

Euprosthenops is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.^[3]

Euprosthenops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897[1]
Type species
E. bayaonianus (Brito Capello, 1867)
Species
9, see text
Synonyms[1]
Euprosthenomma Roewer, 1955[2] Podophthalma Brito Capello, 1867[3]

Species

As of October 2021^[update] it contains ten species and one subspecies, found only in Africa, India and Israel:^[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 insperatus Zonstein & Marusik, 2021 – Israel
• 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

• List of Pisauridae species