Eilica is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1891.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Species | |
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28, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs 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
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Eilica Keyserling, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ^ a b c Platnick, N. I. (1975). "A revision of the spider genus Eilica (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". American Museum Novitates. 2578: 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.
- ^ Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen.