Pterinochilus
Pterinochilus is a genus of baboon spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[3]
| Pterinochilus | |
|---|---|
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| Pterinochilus murinus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. vorax Pocock, 1897 | |
| Species | |
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10, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
As of May 2020 it contains ten species, all found in Africa:[1]
- Pterinochilus alluaudi Berland, 1914 – Kenya
- Pterinochilus andrewsmithi Gallon, 2009 – Kenya
- Pterinochilus chordatus (Gerstäcker, 1873) – East Africa
- Pterinochilus cryptus Gallon, 2008 – Angola
- Pterinochilus lapalala Gallon & Engelbrecht, 2011 – South Africa
- Pterinochilus lugardi Pocock, 1900 – Southern, East Africa
- Pterinochilus murinus Pocock, 1897 – Angola, Central, East, Southern Africa
- Pterinochilus raygabrieli Gallon, 2009 – Kenya
- Pterinochilus simoni Berland, 1917 – Angola, Congo
- Pterinochilus vorax Pocock, 1897 (type) – Angola, Central, East Africa
Formerly included:
- P. breyeri Hewitt, 1919 (Transferred to Augacephalus)
- P. constrictus (Gerstäcker, 1873) (Transferred to Eucratoscelus)
- P. crassispinus Purcell, 1902 (Transferred to Idiothele)
- P. junodi Simon, 1904 (Transferred to Augacephalus)
- P. meridionalis Hirst, 1907 (Transferred to Ceratogyrus)
- P. nigrifemur (Schmidt, 1995) (Transferred to Augacephalus)
- P. nigrofulvus Pocock, 1898 (Transferred to Idiothele)
- P. schoenlandi Pocock, 1900 (Transferred to Trichognathella)
- P. spinifer Pocock, 1898 (Transferred to Eucratoscelus)
See also
References
- "Gen. Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- Laurent, R. (1946). "Notes arachnologiques africaines II.-Sur quelques théraphosides du Congo Belge (Ischnocolinae, Eumenophorinae, Selenocosmiinae)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 39: 323.
- Pocock, R. I. (1897). "On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 65 (3): 46–48.
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