''Sphingius'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...

s in the family

Liocranidae Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus '' Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscur ...

, containing 27 species restricted to

South Asia South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's populatio ...

and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

Species

*'' Sphingius barkudensis'' Gravely, 1931 – Bangladesh, India *'' Sphingius bifurcatus'' Dankittipakul, Tavano & Singtripop, 2011 – Thailand, Malaysia *'' Sphingius bilineatus'' Simon, 1906 – India *'' Sphingius caniceps'' Simon, 1906 – India *'' Sphingius deelemanae'' Zhang & Fu, 2010 – China *'' Sphingius elongatus'' Dankittipakul, Tavano & Singtripop, 2011 – Thailand *'' Sphingius gothicus'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand *'' Sphingius gracilis'' (Thorell, 1895) – China, Myanmar *'' Sphingius hainan'' Zhang, Fu & Zhu, 2009 – China *'' Sphingius kambakamensis'' Gravely, 1931 – India *'' Sphingius longipes'' Gravely, 1931 – India *'' Sphingius nilgiriensis'' Gravely, 1931 – India *'' Sphingius octomaculatus'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand *'' Sphingius paltaensis'' Biswas & Biswas, 1992 – India *'' Sphingius penicillus'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand *'' Sphingius prolixus'' Dankittipakul, Tavano & Singtripop, 2011 – Thailand *'' Sphingius punctatus'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand to Lesser Sunda Is. *'' Sphingius rama'' Dankittipakul, Tavano & Singtripop, 2011 – Thailand *'' Sphingius scrobiculatus'' Thorell, 1897 – China, Taiwan, Myanmar, Thailand *'' Sphingius scutatus'' Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka *'' Sphingius songi'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand *'' Sphingius spinosus'' Dankittipakul, Tavano & Singtripop, 2011 – Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra *'' Sphingius superbus'' Dankittipakul, Tavano & Singtripop, 2011 – Thailand, Malaysia *'' Sphingius thecatus'' Thorell, 1890^T – Malaysia *'' Sphingius tristiculus'' Simon, 1903 – Vietnam *'' Sphingius vivax'' (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines *'' Sphingius zhangi'' Zhang, Fu & Zhu, 2009 – China

References

Liocranidae Spiders of Asia Liocranidae genera {{liocranidae-stub