Echinax

Echinax
E. panache from Hong Kong
E. panache
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Echinax Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 [1]
Type species
E. oxyopoides (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995)
Species
15, see text

Echinax is a genus of Asian and African corinnid sac spiders first described by Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold in 2001. ^[2]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes fifteen species: ^[1]

• Echinax anlongensis Yang, Song & Zhu, 2004 – China
• Echinax baisha Lu & Li, 2023 – China (Hainan)
• Echinax bosmansi (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Echinax breviducta L. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2023 – China
• Echinax clara Haddad, 2012 – Ghana, DR Congo
• Echinax hesperis Haddad, 2012 – Ivory Coast
• Echinax javana (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Java)
• Echinax longespina (Simon, 1909) – Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Gabon, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania
• Echinax natalensis Haddad, 2012 – South Africa
• Echinax oxyopoides (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – China, Malaysia (Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo) (type species)
• Echinax panache Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – India, China, Thailand
• Echinax scharffi Haddad, 2012 – Tanzania
• Echinax similis Haddad, 2012 – South Africa
• Echinax spatulata Haddad, 2012 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Rep. DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania
• Echinax wuzhishan L. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2023 – China (Hainan)

References

1. "Genus Echinax". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-01.
2. Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2001). Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]).