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Euprosthenops
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897
Type species
E. bayaonianus (Brito Capello, 1867)
Species
9, see text
Synonyms
Euprosthenomma Roewer, 1955 Podophthalma Brito Capello, 1867

Euprosthenops is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.

Species

As of October 2021 it contains ten species and one subspecies, found only in Africa, India and Israel:

• Euprosthenops australis Simon, 1898 – Senegal, Nigeria, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa
• Euprosthenops bayaonianus (Brito Capello, 1867) (type) – West, Central, East Africa
• Euprosthenops benoiti Blandin, 1976 – Rwanda
• Euprosthenops biguttatus Roewer, 1955 – Congo, Namibia
• Euprosthenops ellioti (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India
• Euprosthenops insperatus Zonstein & Marusik, 2021 – Israel
• Euprosthenops pavesii Lessert, 1928 – Central, East Africa
• Euprosthenops proximus Lessert, 1916 – Central, East, Southern Africa
  • Euprosthenops p. maximus Blandin, 1976 – Ivory Coast
• Euprosthenops schenkeli (Roewer, 1955) – East Africa
• Euprosthenops wuehlischi Roewer, 1955 – Namibia

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

References

1. ^ "Gen. Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
2. Blandin, P. (1974). "Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines II. Définition du genre Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897 et description du genre Euprosthenopsis n. gen. (Araneae-Pisauridae-Pisaurinae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 81: 946. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.76052.
3. ^ Pocock, R. I. (1897). "Descriptions of two new species of scorpions from East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19 (6): 116–119. doi:10.1080/00222939708680510.

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