Epicratinus

Epicratinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Zodariidae
Genus:	Epicratinus; Jocqué & Baert, 2005
Type species
	Epicratinus amazonicus; Jocqué & Baert, 2005
Species
	25, see text

Epicratinus is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 2005 by Jocqué & Baert.

Species

As of October 2025^[update] it contains twenty five species, found in South America:

Epicratinus amazonicus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (type) – Brazil
Epicratinus anakin Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus arlequina Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus baraka Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus dookan Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus ehonda Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus leia Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus luke Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus maozinha Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus mauru Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus omegarugal Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus pegasus Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus perfidus (Jocqué & Baert, 2002) – Bolivia, Brazil
Epicratinus petropolitanus (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil
Epicratinus pikachu Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus pugionifer Jocqué & Baert, 2005 – Brazil
Epicratinus raiden Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus smeagol Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus stitch Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus takutu Jocqué & Baert, 2005 – Guyana, Brazil
Epicratinus temuerai Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus vader Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus yoda Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2024 – Brazil
Epicratinus zangief Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil
Epicratinus zelda Gonçalves & Brescovit, 2020 – Brazil

References

↑ Jocqué, Rudy; Baert, Léon (2005). "Two new neotropical genera of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 75: 119–133.
↑ Gonçalves, Ricardo Antonio; Brescovit, Antonio Domingos (25 March 2024). "Description of nine new species of the Neotropical spider genus Epicratinus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Brazil". Zootaxa. 5428 (4): 451–479. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5428.4.1. PMID 39645815. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
↑ Gonçalves, Ricardo Antonio; Brescovit, Antonio Domingos (2020-11-30). "Taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of Neotropical spider genus Epicratinus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (Araneae: Zodariidae) with description of eleven new species". Zootaxa. 4886 (1): 1–77. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4886.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311252.

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[1] Jocqué, Rudy; Baert, Léon (2005). "Two new neotropical genera of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 75: 119–133.

[NMBE2-2] Gonçalves, Ricardo Antonio; Brescovit, Antonio Domingos (25 March 2024). "Description of nine new species of the Neotropical spider genus Epicratinus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Brazil". Zootaxa. 5428 (4): 451–479. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5428.4.1. PMID 39645815. Retrieved 2 March 2025.

[3] Gonçalves, Ricardo Antonio; Brescovit, Antonio Domingos (2020-11-30). "Taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of Neotropical spider genus Epicratinus Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (Araneae: Zodariidae) with description of eleven new species". Zootaxa. 4886 (1): 1–77. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4886.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311252.