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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: |
Anoploscelus Pocock, 1897 [1] |
| Type species | |
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A. celeripes Pocock, 1897
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| Species | |
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Anoploscelus is a genus of East African tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. It was erected for the species Anoploscelus celeripes, based on a single male collected near Lake Tanganyika in modern day Tanzania. [2] It was synonymized with Phoneyusa from 1985 to 1990. [3] [4] As of December 2019 [update] it contains two species, including A. lesserti, first found in Rwanda in 1946. [5] [1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Anoploscelus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi: 10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ 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): 724–774. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x.
- ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 149.
- ^ Smith, A. M. (1990). Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. p. 21.
- ^ Laurent, R. (1946). "Notes arachnologiques africaines II. -Sur quelques théraphosides du Congo Belge (Ischnocolinae, Eumenophorinae, Selenocosmiinae)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 39: 301.
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