Echinax

Echinax
E. panache from Hong Kong
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
12, 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 September 2025 ^[update] it contains 15 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, Congo
• Echinax hesperis Haddad, 2012 – Ivory Coast
• Echinax javana (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Java)
• Echinax longespina (Simon, 1910) – West, Central, East Africa
• Echinax natalensis Haddad, 2012 – South Africa
• Echinax oxyopoides (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) (type) – China, Indonesia (Sumatra), Borneo
• Echinax panache Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – China, India, Thailand
• Echinax scharffi Haddad, 2012 – Tanzania
• Echinax similis Haddad, 2012 – South Africa
• Echinax spatulata Haddad, 2012 – West, Central, East Africa
• Echinax wuzhishan L. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2023 – China (Hainan)

References

1. "Gen. Echinax Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-09-22.
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]).