Anoploscelus
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]
| Anoploscelus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
See also
References
- "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.
- 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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