Pterinochilus

Pterinochilus is a genus of baboon spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[3]

Pterinochilus
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

10, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of May 2020 it contains ten species, all found in Africa:[1]

  • Pterinochilus alluaudi Berland, 1914Kenya
  • Pterinochilus andrewsmithi Gallon, 2009 – Kenya
  • Pterinochilus chordatus (Gerstäcker, 1873)East Africa
  • Pterinochilus cryptus Gallon, 2008Angola
  • Pterinochilus lapalala Gallon & Engelbrecht, 2011South 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

  1. "Gen. Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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