# Episinus

Episinus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1809.
They can grow up to 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long.

## Species

As of September 2022 it contains forty-seven species and one subspecies, found worldwide:
* E. affinis Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – India, Russia (Far East), Korea, Taiwan, Japan
* E. algiricus Lucas, 1846 – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Northwest Africa, Malta?
* E. amoenus Banks, 1911 – USA, Mexico
* E. angulatus (Blackwall, 1836) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Central Asia
* E. antipodianus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 – New Zealand
* E. baoshanensis Liu, Irfan & Peng, 2019 – China
* E. bilineatus Simon, 1894 – South Africa
* E. bimucronatus (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela
* E. bishopi (Lessert, 1929) – Congo
* E. bonjovi Lin & Li, 2021 – China
* E. cavernicola (Kulczyński, 1897) – Croatia, Slovenia
* E. chikunii Yoshida, 1985 – Japan
* E. emanus Levi, 1964 – Panama
* E. fontinalis Levy, 1985 – Israel
* E. garisus Buckup & Marques, 1992 – Brazil
* E. gibbus Zhu & Wang, 1995 – China
* E. hickmani Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
* E. immundus (Keyserling, 1884) – Peru, Brazil
* E. implexus (Simon, 1894) – Venezuela
* E. israeliensis Levy, 1985 – Israel
* E. jiangweni Lin & Li, 2021 – China
* E. kitazawai Yaginuma, 1958 – Russia (Kurile Is.), Japan
* E. longabdomenus Zhu, 1998 – China
* E. macrops Simon, 1903 – Equatorial Guinea, Congo
* E. maculipes Cavanna, 1876 – Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus
** Episinus m. numidicus Kulczyński, 1905 – Algeria, Tunisia
* E. maderianus Kulczyński, 1905 – Canary Is., Madeira
* E. makiharai Okuma, 1994 – Taiwan
* E. marignaci (Lessert, 1933) – Angola
* E. meruensis Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
* E. mikhailovi Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
* E. mucronatus (Simon, 1894) – Singapore
* E. nanyue Yin, 2012 – China
* E. nubilus Yaginuma, 1960 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Is.
* E. pentagonalis Chakrabarti, 2013 – India
* E. porteri (Simon, 1901) – Chile, Argentina
* E. punctisparsus Yoshida, 1983 – Taiwan
* E. rhomboidalis (Simon, 1895) – Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore
* E. similanus Urquhart, 1893 – New Zealand
* E. similitudus Urquhart, 1893 – New Zealand
* E. taibeli Caporiacco, 1949 – Ethiopia
* E. theridioides Simon, 1873 – Spain, France (mainland, Corsica), Italy (Sardinia)
* E. tongyani Lin & Li, 2021 – China
* E. truncatus Latreille, 1809 (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran
* E. typicus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
* E. variacorneus Chen, Peng & Zhao, 1992 – China
* E. xiushanicus Zhu, 1998 – China
* E. yoshidai Okuma, 1994 – Taiwan
Formerly included:
* E. bicorniger (Simon, 1894) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. bicornis (Thorell, 1881) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. bicruciatus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. bifrons (Thorell, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. caudifer Dönitz & Strand, 1906 (Transferred to Moneta)
* E. coercerveus Roberts, 1978 (Transferred to Moneta)
* E. conifer (Urquhart, 1886) (Transferred to Moneta)
* E. erythrophthalmus (Simon, 1894) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. gratiosus Bryant, 1940 (Transferred to Neopisinus)
* E. longipes Keyserling, 1884 (Transferred to Neopisinus)
* E. luteolimbatus (Thorell, 1898) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. malachinus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. marginatus (Thorell, 1898) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. minusculus Gertsch, 1936 (Transferred to Chrosiothes)
* E. mirabilis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Transferred to Moneta)
* E. modestus (Thorell, 1898) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. nebulosus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. ocreatus (Simon, 1909) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. paiki Seo, 1985 (Transferred to Moneta)
* E. pictus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. recifensis Levi, 1964 (Transferred to Neopisinus)
* E. salobrensis (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. spinigeroides Zhu & Song, 1992 (Transferred to Moneta)
* E. tanikawai Yoshida, 1991 (Transferred to Moneta)
* E. taprobanicus (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Janula)
* E. yoshimurai Yoshida, 1983 (Transferred to Moneta)
Nomen dubium
* E. americanus Nicolet, 1849