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Genus of spiders
Plesiophrictus is a
genus of
tarantulas that was first described by
Reginald Innes Pocock in 1899.
[3]
Species
As of May 2020
[update] it contains eight species, found in
Sri Lanka ,
India , and
Micronesia :
[1]
Formerly included:
P. bhori Gravely, 1915 (Transferred to
Heterophrictus )
P. blatteri Gravely, 1935 (Transferred to Heterophrictus )
P. collinus Pocock, 1899 (Transferred to
Sahydroaraneus )
P. guangxiensis Yin & Tan, 2000 (Transferred to
Chilobrachys )
P. madraspatanus Gravely, 1935 (Transferred to
Neoheterophrictus )
P. mahabaleshwari Tikader, 1977 (Transferred to Heterophrictus )
P. milleti (Pocock, 1900) (Transferred to Heterophrictus )
P. raja Gravely, 1915 (Transferred to Sahydroaraneus )
See also
References
^
a
b
c
"Gen. Plesiophrictus Pocock, 1899" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. 2020.
doi :
10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-06-08 .
^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 182 : 155.
^
Pocock, R. I. (1899). "Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . 12 : 744–753.