Elicio Eladio Tapia

Elicio Eladio Tapia, Ecuadorean arachnologist

Researcher, Centro Jambatu de Investigación y Conservación de Anfibios, San Rafael, Ecuador.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2015. Descriptions of four kleptoparasitic spiders of the genus Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) and their potential host spider species in the genus Linothele (Araneae, Dipluridae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa 3972(3): 343–368. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.3.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2015. Discovery of the first telemid spider (Araneae, Telemidae) from South America, and the first member of the family bearing a stridulatory organ. Zootaxa 4020(1): 191–196. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4020.1.9. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2016. Overview of the anyphaenids (Araneae, Anyphaeninae, Anyphaenidae) spider fauna from the Chocó forest of Ecuador, with the description of thirteen new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 255: 1-50. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.255. . Reference page.

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2017. On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species. Zootaxa 4341(3): 375–399. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3. Reference page.
Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2017a. The goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) of the OTONGA Nature Reserve in Ecuador, with the description of seven new species. Evolutionary Systematics 1: 87–109. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.1.14969 Reference page.
Guayasamin, J.M., Hutter, C.R., Tapia, E.E., Culebras, J., Peñafiel, N., Pyron, R.A., Morochz, C., Funk, W.C. & Arteaga, A. 2017. Diversification of the rainfrog Pristimantis ornatissimus in the lowlands and Andean foothills of Ecuador. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0172615. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172615 Reference page.

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2018. Further discoveries on the minuscule spiders from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of seven new species of Anapis (Araneae: Anapidae). Zootaxa 4459(3): 482–506. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.4. Reference page.

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2020. Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species. Zootaxa 4761(1): 001–081. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1. . Reference page.

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. 2021. The endless search for type specimens; illustrations of eleven spider (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) species described by Eugène Simon. Zootaxa 4951(2): 259–282. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.2.3. . Reference page.
Dupérré, N., Tapia, E., Quandt, D., Crespo-Pérez, V. & Harms, D. 2021. From the lowlands to the highlands of Ecuador, a study of the genus Masteria (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) with description of seven new species. Zootaxa 5005(4): 538–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.4. . Reference page.