# Echemoides

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon=Echemoides
|authority=[Mello-Leitão](/source/C%C3%A2ndido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leit%C3%A3o), 1938<ref name=NMBE />
|type_species=''[E. giganteus](/source/Echemoides_giganteus)''
|type_species_authority=Mello-Leitão, 1938
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision=15, see text
|synonyms=
*''Zodariops'' <small>[Mello-Leitão](/source/C%C3%A2ndido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leit%C3%A3o), 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](/source/genus) of [South America](/source/South_America)n [ground spiders](/source/Gnaphosidae) that was first described by [Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão](/source/C%C3%A2ndido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leit%C3%A3o) 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 spider](/source/ant_spider)s, it was moved to the [ground spider](/source/ground_spider)s 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](/source/Echemoides_aguilari)'' <small>[Platnick](/source/Norman_I._Platnick) & Shadab, 1979</small> – Peru
*''[Echemoides argentinus](/source/Echemoides_argentinus)'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1940)</small> – Argentina
*''[Echemoides balsa](/source/Echemoides_balsa)'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Argentina
*''[Echemoides cekalovici](/source/Echemoides_cekalovici)'' <small>Platnick, 1983</small> – Chile
*''[Echemoides chilensis](/source/Echemoides_chilensis)'' <small>Platnick, 1983</small> – Chile
*''[Echemoides gayi](/source/Echemoides_gayi)'' <small>([Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1904)</small> – Chile
*''[Echemoides giganteus](/source/Echemoides_giganteus)'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1938</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Argentina
*''[Echemoides illapel](/source/Echemoides_illapel)'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile
*''[Echemoides malleco](/source/Echemoides_malleco)'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile
*''[Echemoides mauryi](/source/Echemoides_mauryi)'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Paraguay, Argentina
*''[Echemoides penai](/source/Echemoides_penai)'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Peru, Chile
*''[Echemoides penicillatus](/source/Echemoides_penicillatus)'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1942)</small> – Paraguay, Argentina
*''[Echemoides rossi](/source/Echemoides_rossi)'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile
*''[Echemoides schlingeri](/source/Echemoides_schlingeri)'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile
*''[Echemoides tofo](/source/Echemoides_tofo)'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1979</small> – Chile

==References==
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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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