{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon=Echemoides |authority=Mello-Leitão, 1938<ref name=NMBE /> |type_species=''E. giganteus'' |type_species_authority=Mello-Leitão, 1938 |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=15, see text |synonyms= *''Zodariops'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1939</small><ref name=Plat1993>{{cite journal|last=Platnick|first=N. I.|year=1993|title=Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980|journal=Advances in Spider Taxonomy|volume=1988|publisher=The New York Entomological Society, New York|page=648}}</ref> |synonyms_ref=<ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Echemoides''''' is a genus of South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.<ref name=Mell1938>{{cite journal |last=Mello-Leitão |first=C. F. de |year=1938 |title=Algunas arañas nuevas de la Argentina |journal=Revista del Museo de La Plata |pages=89–118 |volume=1 |series=New Series}}{{clarify|reason=issue?|date=April 2021}}</ref> Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to the ground spiders in 1993.<ref name=Plat1993 />
==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains fifteen species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Echemoides Mello-Leitão, 1938|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/928|doi=10.24436/2|last1=Gloor|first1=Daniel|last2=Nentwig|first2=Wolfgang|last3=Blick|first3=Theo|last4=Kropf|first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Echemoides aguilari'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Peru *''Echemoides argentinus'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1940)</small> – Argentina *''Echemoides balsa'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Argentina *''Echemoides cekalovici'' <small>Platnick, 1983</small> – Chile *''Echemoides chilensis'' <small>Platnick, 1983</small> – Chile *''Echemoides gayi'' <small>(Simon, 1904)</small> – Chile *''Echemoides giganteus'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1938</small> (type) – Argentina *''Echemoides illapel'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile *''Echemoides malleco'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile *''Echemoides mauryi'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Paraguay, Argentina *''Echemoides penai'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Peru, Chile *''Echemoides penicillatus'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1942)</small> – Paraguay, Argentina *''Echemoides rossi'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile *''Echemoides schlingeri'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile *''Echemoides tofo'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile
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Category:Gnaphosidae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão
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