Gnathopalystes

Gnathopalystes
	Museum specimen of Gnathopalystes kochi from Myanmar
Scientific classification
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
	10, see text

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

Species

As of September 2019 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 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, 2006 – Taiwan

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"Gen. Gnathopalystes Rainbow, 1899". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
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.

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