{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon=Echemella |authority=Strand, 1906<ref name=NMBE /> |type_species=''E. quinquedentata'' |type_species_authority=Strand, 1906 |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=6, see text |synonyms= *''Allodrassus'' <small>Strand, 1906</small><ref name=Murp2007>{{cite journal|last1=Murphy|first1=J.|last2=Russell-Smith|first2=A.|year=2007|title=A revision of the spider genus Echemella Strand 1906 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)|journal=Journal of Afrotropical Zoology|volume=3|page=16}}</ref> *''Maniana'' <small>Strand, 1906</small><ref name=Murp2007 /> |synonyms_ref=<ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Echemella''''' is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1906.<ref name=Stra1906>{{cite journal|last=Strand|first=E.|year=1906|title=Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen.|journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger|pages=655–690|volume=30}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains six species, mostly from Ethiopia:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Echemella Strand, 1906|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|accessdate=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/926|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Echemella occulta'' <small>(Benoit, 1965)</small> – Congo *''Echemella pavesii'' <small>(Simon, 1909)</small> – Ethiopia *''Echemella quinquedentata'' <small>Strand, 1906</small> (type) – Ethiopia *''Echemella sinuosa'' <small>Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007</small> – Ethiopia *''Echemella strandi'' <small>(Caporiacco, 1940)</small> – Ethiopia *''Echemella tenuis'' <small>Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007</small> – Ethiopia
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Spider taxa named by Embrik Strand {{Gnaphosidae-stub}}