Micythus (spider)

Micythus is a genus of Southeast Asian ground spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1897.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only three species: M. anopsis, M. pictus, and M. rangunensis.[1]

Micythus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Micythus
Thorell, 1897[1]
Type species
M. pictus
Thorell, 1897
Species
  • M. anopsis Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
  • M. pictus Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar, Indonesia (Borneo)
  • M. rangunensis (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)

References
  1. "Gen. Micythus Thorell, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Thorell, T. (1897). "Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXIII. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. I. Parallelodontes. Tubitelariae". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. (2) 17 (2): 161–267.


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