Eilica

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Eilica
Eilica albopunctata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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]
CaridrassusBryant, 1940 [2] Gnaphosoides Hogg, 1896 [2] Gytha Keyserling, 1891 [3] Laronia Simon, 1893 [2]

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

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] 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.