Ebo (spider)

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Ebo
Ebo pepinensis, female (F Philodromidae) (4131858085).jpg
Female Ebo pepinensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Ebo
Keyserling, 1884 [1]
Type species
E. latithorax
Keyserling, 1884
Species

13, see text

Ebo is a genus of running crab spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1884. [2]

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Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found only in North America, Asia, and Argentina: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ebo Keyserling, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Keyserling, E. (1884). "Neue Spinnen aus America. V". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 33: 649–684. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.25328.