Echemella

Echemella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Echemella ; Strand, 1906
Type species
	E. quinquedentata ; Strand, 1906
Species
	6, see text
Synonyms
	Allodrassus Strand, 1906; Maniana Strand, 1906;

Last updated August 26, 2025

Echemella is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1906.^[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains six species, mostly from Ethiopia:^[1]

Echemella occulta (Benoit, 1965) – Congo
Echemella pavesii (Simon, 1909) – Ethiopia
Echemella quinquedentata Strand, 1906 (type) – Ethiopia
Echemella sinuosa Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007 – Ethiopia
Echemella strandi (Caporiacco, 1940) – Ethiopia
Echemella tenuis Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007 – Ethiopia

References

1 2 3 "Gen. Echemella Strand, 1906". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-04.
1 2 Murphy, J.; Russell-Smith, A. (2007). "A revision of the spider genus Echemella Strand 1906 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". Journal of Afrotropical Zoology. 3: 16.
↑ Strand, E. (1906). "Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 30: 655–690.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 3 "Gen. Echemella Strand, 1906". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-04.

[Murp2007-2] 1 2 Murphy, J.; Russell-Smith, A. (2007). "A revision of the spider genus Echemella Strand 1906 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". Journal of Afrotropical Zoology. 3: 16.

[Stra1906-3] Strand, E. (1906). "Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 30: 655–690.

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