Episinus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1809. They can grow up to long. Species 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: