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Genus: Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897 | Family: Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Euprosthenops ellioti (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019680

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK f (1517) - (Sankaran et al., 2026)
Paralectotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 1m 1f (1517) - (Sankaran et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Podophthalma ellioti O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877b: 567, pl. 57, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description

Euprosthenops ellioti Pocock, 1900a: 249

Euprosthenops ellioti Tikader & Malhotra, 1976c: 541, f. 4-7 (mf)

Euprosthenops ellioti Blandin, 1976d: 575, f. 1-4 (mf)

Euprosthenops ellioti Blandin, 1978c: 26, f. 6h, 7f (mf)

Euprosthenops ellioti Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 264, f. 19 (m)

Euprosthenops ellioti Sankaran et al., 2026: 7, f. 26-33 (f)

References

Blandin, P. (1976d). Note sur Euprosthenops ellioti (Pickard-Cambridge O., 1877) (Araneae – Pisauridae – Pisaurinae). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 100(4, 1975): 575-581. [[year corrected per Frétey, 2023: 95]] -- Show included taxa

Blandin, P. (1978c). Le problème de l'espèce chez les araignées. In: Les problèmes de l'espèce dans le règne animal. Paris 2, 13-56. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1877b). On some new species of Araneidea, with characters of two new genera and some remarks on the families Podophthalmides and Dinopides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 45(3): 557-578, pl. 56-57. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1877.tb00537.x -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.48423 -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Abraham, A., Williams, S. H. & Asima, A. (2026). New data on Indian nursery-web spiders (Araneae: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 5757(1): 1-25. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5757.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Malhotra, M. S. (1976c). Redescription of type specimens of the species Eucamptopus coronatus Pocock and Euprosthenops ellioti (Cambridge) (fam. Pisauridae) with critical notes. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 73: 539-543. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Malhotra, M. S. (1980). Lycosidae (wolf-spiders). Fauna India (Araneae) 1: 248-447. -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-02-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran et al., 2026
2022-04-01	Species distribution update	Dyal, 1935	Old value