Encoptarthria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Gnaphosidae |
Genus: | Encoptarthria Main, 1954[1] |
Type species | |
E. echemophthalma (Simon, 1908)
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Species | |
5, see text |
Encoptarthria is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Barbara York Main in 1954.[2] Originally placed in the no longer recognized family Prodidomidae, it was moved to the family Gnaphosidae in 2007.[3]
As of May 2019[update] it contains five species:[1]