Prychia

Prychia is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.[2]

Prychia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Prychia
L. Koch, 1875[1]
Type species
P. gracilis
L. Koch, 1875
Species

4, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains four species, found on Fiji, in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and on the Polynesian Islands:[1]

  • Prychia gracilis L. Koch, 1875 (type) – New Guinea to Fiji, Polynesia
  • Prychia maculata Karsch, 1878 – New Guinea
  • Prychia pallidula Strand, 1911 – New Guinea
  • Prychia suavis Simon, 1897Philippines

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Prychia L. Koch, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Koch, L. (1875). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 577–740.


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