Pherecydes (spider)
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Pherecydes | |
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Pherecydes tuberculatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Thomisidae |
Genus: | Pherecydes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883[1] |
Type species | |
P. tuberculatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883 | |
Species | |
8, see text |
Pherecydes is a genus of African crab spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1883.[2]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains eight species:[1]
- Pherecydes carinae Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980 — South Africa
- Pherecydes ionae Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980 — Tanzania
- Pherecydes livens Simon, 1895 — Tunisia
- Pherecydes lucinae Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980 — South Africa
- Pherecydes nicolaasi Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980 — South Africa
- Pherecydes tuberculatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883 — South Africa, Lesotho
- Pherecydes zebra Lawrence, 1927 — West, Southern Africa
- Pherecydes z. tropicalis Millot, 1942 — Burkina Faso
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Pherecydes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1883). "On some new genera and species of spiders". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 51 (3): 352–365. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1883.tb06654.x.
External links
- "Pherecydes" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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