Elicio Eladio Tapia

Elicio Eladio Tapia, Ecuadorean arachnologist

• Researcher, Centro Jambatu de Investigación y Conservación de Anfibios, San Rafael, Ecuador.
• Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology, Leibniz-Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Center for Taxonomy and Morphology, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.

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• 146 taxon names authored by Elicio Eladio Tapia

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• Dupérré, N. & 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. & 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. & 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. & 2017. 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., , 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. & 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. & 2020a. On the putatively incorrect identification and “redescription” of Paratropis elicioi Dupérré 2015 (Paratropididae, Araneae) with the description of two new sympatric species from Ecuador. Zootaxa 4869(3): 326–346. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.3.2. . Reference page. .

• Dupérré, N. & 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., , 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. 

• Dupérré, N. & 2023. Discovery of a new eye pattern in Araneoid spiders, with the description of two new species of Testudinaria from the Ecuadorian Amazon (Araneae: Araneidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) 59(5): 337-362. DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2023.2244455. . Reference page. 
• Dupérré, N. & 2023a. Description of eleven new species in the Scytodoidea group (Araneae: Drymusidae and Scytodidae) from mainland Ecuador. The Journal of Arachnology 51(3): 258-286. DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-22-002. , Reference page. 
• Dupérré, N., & Bond, J.E. 2023. Review of the spider genus Linothele (Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) from Ecuador – an exceptional case of speciation in the Andes. Arthropoda 1(3): 68-341. DOI: 10.3390/arthropoda1030010. . Reference page. 

• Dupérré, N., Harms, D., Crespo-Pérez, V. & 2024. Two new species of the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae, Sicariidae) from the Ecuadorian Andes. Evolutionary Systematics 8: 1–14 DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.8.107213. . Reference page. 
• Dupérré, N. & 2024. Description of a new Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 species (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador. Zootaxa 5437(4): 495–509. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.3 Reference page. 
• Dupérré, N. & 2024a. Seven new species of the enigmatic spider genus Paratropis Simon, 1889 (Mygalomorphae, Paratropididae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa 5519(4): 451–486. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5519.4.1. . Reference page. 
• Dupérré, N., , Marusik, Y.M. & Eskov, K.Y. 2024. Three new species of Melychiopharis (Araneae, Araneidae) from Ecuador and Peru. Zootaxa 5555(1): 075–090. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5555.1.5. . Reference page. 
• Dupérré, N. & 2024. First Record of the Family Hahniidae in Ecuador with Description of Thirteen New Species and Three New Genera (Araneae: Hahniidae). Taxonomy 4(1): 53–111. DOI: /10.3390/taxonomy4010005 . Reference page. 

• Dupérré, N. & 2025. “Out of the blue”, a new species of the monotypic genus Kinku Simon, 1889 (Araneae, Telemidae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa 5636(3): 566–576. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5636.3.10. Reference page.