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Erissus

genus of arachnids

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5308561 ↗
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Erissus is a genus of South American crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.

Species

As of September 2020 it contains ten species, found in Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil:

Erissus angulosus Simon, 1895 – Brazil

Erissus bateae Soares, 1941 – Brazil

Erissus bilineatus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil

Erissus fuscus Simon, 1929 – Peru, Brazil

Erissus mirabilis (Soares, 1942) – Brazil

Erissus roseus Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Brazil

Erissus sanctaeleopoldinae (Soares & Soares, 1946) – Brazil

Erissus spinosissimus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil

Erissus truncatifrons Simon, 1895 – Venezuela, Brazil

Erissus validus Simon, 1895 (type) – Peru, Brazil

See also

List of Thomisidae species

References

Further reading

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929). "Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil". Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 31: 9–359.

Bonaldo, A. B.; Lise, A. A. (2001). "A review of the Neotropical spider genus Stephanopoides (Araneae, Thomisidae, Stephanopinae)". Biociências. 9: 63–80.

Soares, B. A. M.; Soares, H. E. M. (1946).

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The public source identifies “Erissus” as genus of arachnids. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Erissus, genus and arachnids.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erissus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.