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Anepsion

Anepsion is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.

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Anepsion
Frontal view of Anepsion maritatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Anepsion
Strand, 19291
Type species
Epeira rhomboides
L. Koch, 1867
Species

17, see text

Anepsion is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.2

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seventeen species:1

  • Anepsion buchi Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
  • Anepsion depressum (Thorell, 1877) – China, Myanmar to Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Anepsion fuscolimbatum (Simon, 1901) – Malaysia
  • Anepsion hammeni Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea
  • Anepsion jacobsoni Chrysanthus, 1961 – Indonesia
  • Anepsion japonicum (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Thailand, Japan
  • Anepsion maculatum (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
  • Anepsion maritatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India, Sri Lanka, China to Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Anepsion peltoides (Thorell, 1878) – Australia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.)
  • Anepsion reimoseri Chrysanthus, 1961 – New Guinea
  • Anepsion rhomboides (L. Koch, 1867) – Samoa
  • Anepsion roeweri Chrysanthus, 1961 – Taiwan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea (Riouw Is.)
  • Anepsion semialbum (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
  • Anepsion villosum (Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Anepsion wichmanni (Kulczyński, 1911) – New Guinea
  • Anepsion wolffi Chrysanthus, 1969 – Solomon Is.
References

References

  1. "Gen. Anepsion Strand, 1929". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.