Eilica

Genus of spiders

"Gytha" redirects here. For other uses, see Gytha (disambiguation).

Eilica

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Gnaphosidae
Genus:  | Eilica
Keyserling, 1891[1]
Type species
E. modesta

Keyserling, 1891

Species

28, see text

Synonyms[1]

* Caridrassus Bryant, 1940[2]
* Gnaphosoides Hogg, 1896[2]
* Gytha Keyserling, 1891[3]
* Laronia Simon, 1893[2]

Eilica is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1891.[4]

## Species[edit]

As of May 2019[update] it contains twenty-eight species:[1]

* Eilica albopunctata (Hogg, 1896) – Australia (South Australia, Queensland)
* Eilica amambay Platnick, 1985 – Brazil, Paraguay
* Eilica bedourie Platnick, 1985 – Australia (Queensland)
* Eilica bicolor Banks, 1896 – USA to Honduras, Cuba, Jamaica
* Eilica bonda Müller, 1987 – Colombia
* Eilica chickeringi Platnick, 1975 – Panama
* Eilica cincta (Simon, 1893) – West, Central Africa
* Eilica contacta Platnick, 1975 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
* Eilica daviesae Platnick, 1985 – Australia (Queensland)
* Eilica fusca Platnick, 1975 – South Africa
* Eilica giga FitzPatrick, 1994 – Zimbabwe
* Eilica kandarpae Nigam & Patel, 1996 – India
* Eilica lotzi FitzPatrick, 2002 – South Africa
* Eilica maculipes (Vellard, 1925) – Brazil
* Eilica marchantaria Brescovit & Höfer, 1993 – Brazil
* Eilica modesta Keyserling, 1891 (type) – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
* Eilica mullaroo Platnick, 1988 – Australia (Victoria)
* Eilica myrmecophila (Simon, 1903) – Peru, Argentina
* Eilica obscura (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
* Eilica platnicki Tikader & Gajbe, 1977 – India
* Eilica pomposa Medan, 2001 – Brazil, Argentina
* Eilica rotunda Platnick, 1975 – Australia (Queensland)
* Eilica rufithorax (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela, Brazil
* Eilica serrata Platnick, 1975 – Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)
* Eilica songadhensis Patel, 1988 – India
* Eilica tikaderi Platnick, 1976 – India
* Eilica trilineata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina, Chile, Brazil
* Eilica uniformis (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942) – Argentina

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Gen. Eilica Keyserling, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
2. ^ a b c Platnick, N. I. (1975). "A revision of the spider genus Eilica (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". American Museum Novitates. 2578: 3.
3. ^ Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1981). "On the spider genus Eilica (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 170: 184.
4. ^ Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q2216685
* Wikispecies: Eilica
* ADW: Eilica
* AFD: Eilica
* BioLib: 611459
* BOLD: 290301
* BugGuide: 683591
* CoL: 632Q8
* EoL: 113722
* GBIF: 2132020
* iNaturalist: 249974
* IRMNG: 1052786
* ITIS: 872041
* NCBI: 1956428
* uBio: 4153477
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02423

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