# Encoptarthria

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon=Encoptarthria
|authority=[Main](/source/Barbara_York_Main), 1954<ref name=NMBE />
|type_species=''[E. echemophthalma](/source/Encoptarthria_echemophthalma)''
|type_species_authority=([Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1908)
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision=5, see text
}}

'''''Encoptarthria''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [Australia](/source/Australia)n [ground spiders](/source/Gnaphosidae) that was first described by [Barbara York Main](/source/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](/source/Encoptarthria_echemophthalma)'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Australia (Western Australia)
*''[Encoptarthria grisea](/source/Encoptarthria_grisea)'' <small>([L. Koch](/source/Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch), 1873)</small> – Australia
*''[Encoptarthria penicillata](/source/Encoptarthria_penicillata)'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> – Australia (Western Australia)
*''[Encoptarthria perpusilla](/source/Encoptarthria_perpusilla)'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> – Australia (Western Australia)
*''[Encoptarthria vestigator](/source/Encoptarthria_vestigator)'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> – Australia (Western Australia)

==References==
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Category:Gnaphosidae genera
Category:Gnaphosidae
Category:Spiders of Australia
Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon

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