Eriovixia

Eriovixia
Female Eriovixia sakiedaorum
Male E. sakiedaorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Eriovixia Archer, 1951 [1]
Type species
E. rhinura (Pocock, 1900)
Species
33, see text
Synonyms [1]
SimonarachneArcher, 1951 [2]

Eriovixia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1951. ^[3]

Most species are found from India to the Philippines and Indonesia, with a few species in Africa.

Species

• 
  E. gryffindori
• 
  E. laglaizei
• 
  E. pseudocentrodes

As of September 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 33 species: ^[1]

• Eriovixia bannaensis Zhou, Zhu & Zhang, 2017 – China
• Eriovixia cavaleriei (Schenkel, 1963) – China
• Eriovixia enshiensis (Yin & Zhao, 1994) – China
• Eriovixia excelsa (Simon, 1889) – Pakistan, India, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia. Introduced to South Africa, Eswatini
• Eriovixia ganae Mi & Li, 2021 – China
• Eriovixia gryffindori Ahmed, Khalap & Sumukha, 2016 – India
• Eriovixia hainanensis (Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990) – China (Hainan)
• Eriovixia huwena Han & Zhu, 2010 – China
• Eriovixia jianfengensis Han & Zhu, 2010 – China (Hainan)
• Eriovixia kachugaonensis P. Basumatary, Chanda, Das, Kalita, Brahma, T. Basumatary, B. K. Basumatary & Daimary, 2019 – India
• Eriovixia laglaizei (Simon, 1877) – Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Indonesia
• Eriovixia liuhongi Mi & Li, 2021 – China
• Eriovixia mahabaeus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines
• Eriovixia menglunensis (Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990) – China
• Eriovixia napiformis (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon, East Africa, Yemen
• Eriovixia nigrimaculata Han & Zhu, 2010 – China
• Eriovixia nocturnalis Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2018 – Bangladesh
• Eriovixia palawanensis (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – India, Philippines
• Eriovixia patulisus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – India, Philippines
• Eriovixia pengi Mi & Li, 2021 – China
• Eriovixia poonaensis (Tikader & Bal, 1981) – India, China, Thailand, Malaysia
• Eriovixia porcula (Simon, 1877) – Singapore, Philippines
• Eriovixia pseudocentrodes (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Laos, Japan
• Eriovixia rhinura (Pocock, 1900) – West, Central Africa (type species)
• Eriovixia sakiedaorum Tanikawa, 1999 – India, China (Hainan), Taiwan, Japan
• Eriovixia sticta Mi, Peng & Yin, 2010 – China
• Eriovixia tangi Mi & Li, 2021 – China
• Eriovixia turbinata (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon, DR Congo
• Eriovixia wangchengi Mi & Li, 2021 – China
• Eriovixia yaoi Mi & Li, 2021 – China
• Eriovixia yinae Mi & Li, 2021 – China
• Eriovixia yunnanensis (Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990) – China, Thailand
• Eriovixia zhengi Mi & Li, 2021 – China

References

1. "Genus Eriovixia". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 26 September 2025.
2. Grasshoff, M. (1986). "Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Neoscona in Afrika (Arachnida: Araneae)". Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen. 250: 36.
3. Archer, A. F. (1951). "Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 1". American Museum Novitates (1487): 1–52.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Eriovixia at iNaturalist