# Echemella

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon=Echemella
|authority=[Strand](/source/Embrik_Strand), 1906<ref name=NMBE />
|type_species=''[E. quinquedentata](/source/Echemella_quinquedentata)''
|type_species_authority=Strand, 1906
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision=6, see text
|synonyms=
*''Allodrassus'' <small>[Strand](/source/Embrik_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](/source/Embrik_Strand), 1906</small><ref name=Murp2007 />
|synonyms_ref=<ref name=NMBE />
}}

'''''Echemella''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [Africa](/source/Africa)n [ground spiders](/source/Gnaphosidae) that was first described by [Embrik Strand](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Echemella_occulta)'' <small>(Benoit, 1965)</small> – Congo
*''[Echemella pavesii](/source/Echemella_pavesii)'' <small>([Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1909)</small> – Ethiopia
*''[Echemella quinquedentata](/source/Echemella_quinquedentata)'' <small>Strand, 1906</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Ethiopia
*''[Echemella sinuosa](/source/Echemella_sinuosa)'' <small>Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007</small> – Ethiopia
*''[Echemella strandi](/source/Echemella_strandi)'' <small>([Caporiacco](/source/Lodovico_di_Caporiacco), 1940)</small> – Ethiopia
*''[Echemella tenuis](/source/Echemella_tenuis)'' <small>Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007</small> – Ethiopia

==References==
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Category:Araneomorphae genera
Category:Gnaphosidae
Category:Spiders of Africa
Category:Spider taxa named by Embrik Strand
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