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Genus: Echemus Simon, 1878 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Echemus viveki Gajbe, 1989

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027152

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Described:

Distribution: Himalaya (India, China)

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Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (5137/18) - (Gajbe, 1989)
Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India 1f (5138/18) - (Gajbe, 1989)

Taxonomic References

Echemus viveki Gajbe, 1989: 560, f. 9-13 (Df) Original description

Echemus viveki Jiang et al., 2025c: 118, f. 2A-F, 3A-G, 4A-D, 5B (Dm, f)

References

Gajbe, U. A. (1989). On two new species of the genera Scotophaeus Simon and Echemus Simon from India (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 84(4): 557-562. -- Show included taxa

Jiang, Z. M., Ning, X. Q., Yao, Y. B., Wang, Z. J. & Liu, K. K. (2025c). A new species of the genus Allomicythus, with a first record and the description of the male of Echemus viveki Gajbe, 1989 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from China. Zootaxa 5646(1): 115-123. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5646.1.6 -- 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
2025-06-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Jiang et al., 2025c
2025-06-06	First description of male	Jiang et al., 2025c	Old value
2025-06-06	Species distribution update	Jiang et al., 2025c	Old value