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Genus: Eutichurus Simon, 1897 | Family: Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887

Eutichurus tropicus (L. Koch, 1866)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023500

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia

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Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 2f - (Casas et al., 2025)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil m (263) of Eutichurus brescoviti - (Casas et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Cheiracanthium tropicum Koch, 1866: 239, pl. 10, f. 155 (Df) Original description

Eutichurus tropicus Bonaldo & Brescovit, 1992: 738 (T from Cheiracanthium)

Eutichurus brescoviti Bonaldo, 1994: 119, f. 43-45 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023480]

Eutichurus tropicus Bonaldo, 1994: 119, f. 46-47 (f)

Eutichurus tropicus Bonaldo et al., 2018: 344 (S of Eutichurus brescoviti)

Eutichurus tropicus Casas et al., 2025: 411, f. 7A-E, 29B, 30B, 34 (mf)

References

Bonaldo, A. B. & Brescovit, A. D. (1992). As aranhas do gênero Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 na região neotropical (Araneae, Clubionidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 36: 731-740. -- Show included taxa

Bonaldo, A. B. (1994). A subfamília Eutichurinae na região neotropical, com a revisão do gênero Eutichurus Simon, 1896 (Araneae, Miturgidae). Iheringia (Zool.) 76: 101-159. -- Show included taxa

Bonaldo, A. B., Lise, A. A., Ramírez, M. J. & Saturnino, R. (2018). Revisiting the spider genus Eutichurus Simon, 1897 (Araneae, Eutichuridae): new species and complementary descriptions. Zootaxa 4382(2): 231-346. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.2.6 -- Show included taxa

Casas, C. M., Villarreal-Blanco, E., Morales, A., Osorio, C. & Martínez, L. (2025). Unveiling the diversity of Eutichurus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) in Colombia: new species, records and comments on their distribution. Zootaxa 5691(3): 339-448. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5691.3.2 -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Hefte 1-6. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, pp. 1-304. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Casas et al., 2025
2018-02-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Bonaldo et al., 2018
2018-02-21	Species synonymy	Bonaldo et al., 2018	Eutichurus brescoviti synonymized with Eutichurus tropicus