Gnathopalystes

Genus of spiders

Gnathopalystes
Museum specimen of Gnathopalystes kochi from Myanmar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Gnathopalystes
Rainbow, 1899[1]
Type species
G. ferox
Rainbow, 1899
Species

11, see text

Gnathopalystes is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1899.[2]

Species

As of November 2022[update] it contains ten species, found in Oceania and Asia:[1]

  • Gnathopalystes aureolus (He & Hu, 2000) – China (Hainan)
  • Gnathopalystes crucifer (Simon, 1880) – Malaysia or Indonesia (Java)
  • Gnathopalystes denticulatus (Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007) – India
  • Gnathopalystes ferox Rainbow, 1899 (type) – Vanuatu
  • Gnathopalystes flavidus (Simon, 1897) – Pakistan, India
  • Gnathopalystes ignicomus (L. Koch, 1875)Papua New Guinea (New Ireland, New Britain)
  • Gnathopalystes kochi (Simon, 1880) – India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Gnathopalystes nigriventer (Kulczyński, 1910) – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
  • Gnathopalystes nigrocornutus (Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Gnathopalystes rutilans (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Gnathopalystes taiwanensis Zhu & Tso, 2006Taiwan

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Gnathopalystes Rainbow, 1899". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ^ Rainbow, W. J. (1899). "Contribution to a knowledge of the araneidan fauna of Santa Cruz". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 24: 304–321. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.7667.
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