{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Erissus | authority = Simon, 1895<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''E. validus'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1895 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 10, see text }} '''''Erissus''''' is a genus of South American crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.<ref name=Simo1895>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1895| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Thomisidae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=432–443| volume=39| author-link=Eugène Simon}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2020|09}} it contains ten species, found in Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Erissus Simon, 1895| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-10-10| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3625| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Erissus angulosus'' <small>Simon, 1895</small> – Brazil *''Erissus bateae'' <small>Soares, 1941</small> – Brazil *''Erissus bilineatus'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1929</small> – Brazil *''Erissus fuscus'' <small>Simon, 1929</small> – Peru, Brazil *''Erissus mirabilis'' <small>(Soares, 1942)</small> – Brazil *''Erissus roseus'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1943</small> – Brazil *''Erissus sanctaeleopoldinae'' <small>(Soares & Soares, 1946)</small> – Brazil *''Erissus spinosissimus'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1929</small> – Brazil *''Erissus truncatifrons'' <small>Simon, 1895</small> – Venezuela, Brazil *''Erissus validus'' <small>Simon, 1895</small> (type) – Peru, Brazil
==See also== * List of Thomisidae species
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1929| title=Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil| journal=Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro| pages=9–359| volume=31}} *{{cite journal| last1=Bonaldo| first1=A. B.| last2=Lise| first2=A. A.| year=2001| title=A review of the Neotropical spider genus ''Stephanopoides'' (Araneae, Thomisidae, Stephanopinae)| journal=Biociências| pages=63–80| volume=9}} *{{cite journal| last1=Soares| first1=B. A. M.| last2=Soares| first2=H. E. M.| year=1946| title=Contribuição ao estudo das aranhas do estado do Espírito Santo| journal=Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria de Agricultura, São Paulo| pages=51–72| volume=7}} *{{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1943| title=Alguns pisauridas e tomisidas do Brasil| journal=Revista Chilena de Historia Natural| pages=164–172| volume=45}}
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Category:Thomisidae genera Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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