Euprosthenopsis
| Euprosthenopsis | |
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| female E. vuattouxi | |
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| female E. pulchella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pisauridae |
| Genus: | Euprosthenopsis Blandin, 1974[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. armata (Strand, 1913)
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| Species | |
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Euprosthenopsis is a genus of African nursery web spiders that was first described by P. Blandin in 1974.[2]
Description
Euprosthenopsis species have a carapace as wide as long. The anterior lateral eyes are pedunculate, as in Euprosthenops, with the peduncles generally somewhat more detached from the cephalothorax. The base of the median eyes forms a trapezium proportionally larger than in Euprosthenops. The posterior margin of the chelicerae has three teeth.[3]
The cephalothorax has characteristic pilosity forming an ornamentation: two thin white and more or less undulating lateral bands extend onto the median part of the peduncles of the anterior lateral eyes, the sides of which are brown, and a thin white median band penetrates the eye group and is connected by white stripes to the lateral bands.[3]
The abdomen is oval and tapers towards the back. The legs are relatively long, sometimes slightly laterigrade, and have three claws.[3]
Taxonomy
The genus Euprosthenopsis was described by Blandin in 1974. It has been revised by Blandin (1974), with notes on some species by Silva and Sierwald (2014).[3]
Species
As of September 2025 it contains seven species and one subspecies, found only in Africa:[1]
- Euprosthenopsis armata (Strand, 1913) (type) – Central, East Africa
- Euprosthenopsis lamorali Blandin, 1977 – South Africa
- Euprosthenopsis lesserti (Roewer, 1955) – East Africa
- Euprosthenopsis l. garambensis (Lessert, 1928) – Central Africa
- Euprosthenopsis pulchella (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
- Euprosthenopsis rothschildi Blandin, 1977 – Kenya
- Euprosthenopsis vachoni Blandin, 1977 – Djibouti
- Euprosthenopsis vuattouxi Blandin, 1977 – Ivory Coast, South Africa
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Euprosthenopsis Blandin, 1974". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
- ^ Blandin, P. (1974). "Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines II. Définition du genre Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897 et description du genre Euprosthenopsis n. gen. (Araneae-Pisauridae-Pisaurinae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 81: 933–947. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.76052.
- ^ a b c d Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2020). The Pisauridae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. p. 27. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7157775.
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