Euprosthenops is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[3]
Species
As of October 2021 it contains ten species and one subspecies, found only in Africa, India and Israel:[1]
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Euprosthenops australis Simon, 1898 – Senegal, Nigeria, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa
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Euprosthenops bayaonianus (Brito Capello, 1867) (type) – West, Central, East Africa
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Euprosthenops benoiti Blandin, 1976 – Rwanda
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Euprosthenops biguttatus Roewer, 1955 – Congo, Namibia
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Euprosthenops ellioti (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India
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Euprosthenops insperatus Zonstein & Marusik, 2021 – Israel
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Euprosthenops pavesii Lessert, 1928 – Central, East Africa
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Euprosthenops proximus Lessert, 1916 – Central, East, Southern Africa
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Euprosthenops schenkeli (Roewer, 1955) – East Africa
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Euprosthenops wuehlischi Roewer, 1955 – Namibia
See also
References
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^ a b c "Gen. Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
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^ Blandin, P. (1974). "Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines II. Définition du genre Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897 et description du genre Euprosthenopsis n. gen. (Araneae-Pisauridae-Pisaurinae)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 81: 946.
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^ a b Pocock, R. I. (1897). "Descriptions of two new species of scorpions from East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19 (6): 116–119.
