''Anepsion'' 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 ...
of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Embrik Strand
Embrik Strand (2 June 1876 – 3 November 1947) was an entomologist and arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula.
Life and career
Strand was born in Ål, Norway. He studied at t ...
in 1929.
Species
it contains seventeen species:
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Anepsion buchi''
Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
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Anepsion depressum''
(Thorell, 1877) – China, Myanmar to Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Anepsion d. birmanicum''
(Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
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Anepsion fuscolimbatum''
(Simon, 1901) – Malaysia
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Anepsion hammeni''
Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea
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Anepsion jacobsoni''
Chrysanthus, 1961 – Indonesia
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Anepsion japonicum''
(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Thailand, Japan
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Anepsion maculatum''
(Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
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Anepsion maritatum''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India, Sri Lanka, China to Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Anepsion peltoides''
(Thorell, 1878) – Australia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.)
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Anepsion reimoseri''
Chrysanthus, 1961 – New Guinea
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Anepsion rhomboides
''Anepsion'' is a genus of Araneidae, orb-weaver spiders first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.
Species
it contains seventeen species:
*''Anepsion buchi'' Chrysanthus (arachnologist), Chrysanthus, 1969 – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
*''Anepsion ...
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(L. Koch, 1867) – Samoa
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Anepsion roeweri''
Chrysanthus, 1961 – Taiwan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea (Riouw Is.)
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Anepsion semialbum''
(Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
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Anepsion villosum''
(Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Anepsion wichmanni''
(Kulczyński, 1911) – New Guinea
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Anepsion wolffi''
Chrysanthus, 1969 – Solomon Is.
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Embrik Strand
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