| Ero furcata | |
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| Ero furcata, adult female | |
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| Egg sac of Ero furcata, from a hole in a tree, Botanical Garden (Flora) of Cologne, Germany | |
| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae | 
| Family: | Mimetidae | 
| Genus: | Ero | 
| Species: | E. furcata | 
| Binomial name | |
| Ero furcata (Villers, 1789) [1]  | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Ero furcata is a pirate spider species with Palearctic distribution, being native from the Azores to Japan. [1] It is notably also found in Ireland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. [2] [3] It was first described by Villers in 1789 as Aranea furcata. [1]