Eilica

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

Eilica
Scientific classification
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]

Species

As of May 2019 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
  1. "Gen. Eilica Keyserling, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. 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.


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