Biology:Anoploscelus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Anoploscelus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Anoploscelus
Pocock, 1897[1]
Type species
A. celeripes
Pocock, 1897
Species
  • A. celeripes Pocock, 1897 – Uganda, Tanzania
  • A. lesserti Laurent, 1946Rwanda

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) it contains two species, including A. lesserti, first found in Rwanda in 1946.[5][1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Anoploscelus Pocock, 1897. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3322. Retrieved 2020-01-31. 
  2. 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30987968. 
  3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 149. 
  4. Smith, A. M. (1990). Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. p. 21. 
  5. 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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