{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon=Encoptarthria |authority=Main, 1954<ref name=NMBE /> |type_species=''E. echemophthalma'' |type_species_authority=(Simon, 1908) |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=5, see text }}
'''''Encoptarthria''''' is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Barbara York Main in 1954.<ref name=Main1954>{{citation|last=Main|first=B. Y.|year=1954|contribution=Spiders and Opiliones|title=The Archipelago of the Recherche}}</ref> Originally placed in the no longer recognized family Prodidomidae, it was moved to the family Gnaphosidae in 2007.<ref name=Murp2007>{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=J.|year=2007|title=Gnaphosid genera of the world|publisher=British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire|page=50}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains five species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Encoptarthria Main, 1954|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/931|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Encoptarthria echemophthalma'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> (type) – Australia (Western Australia) *''Encoptarthria grisea'' <small>(L. Koch, 1873)</small> – Australia *''Encoptarthria penicillata'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Encoptarthria perpusilla'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Encoptarthria vestigator'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> – Australia (Western Australia)
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Category:Gnaphosidae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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