Platyoides

Platyoides
Platyoides sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Gnaphosoidea
Family:	Trochanteriidae
Genus:	Platyoides O. P.-Cambridge, 1890
Species
see text

Platyoides (scorpion spiders) is a genus of spiders belonging to the family Trochanteriidae and found in sub-Saharan Africa and its islands, Madagascar, Réunion, Aldabra and the Canary Islands.

The genus is nocturnal in habit and has developed extreme flattening of the body adapted to living in narrow cracks, particularly under loose bark.

Platyoides species

Platyoides O. P.-Cambridge, 1890

• Platyoides alpha Lawrence, 1928 — Angola, Namibia, South Africa
• Platyoides costeri Tucker, 1923 — South Africa
• Platyoides fitzsimonsi Lawrence, 1938 — Namibia
• Platyoides grandidieri Simon, 1903 — Kenya, Madagascar, Aldabra, Réunion
• Platyoides leppanae Pocock, 1902 — Mozambique, South Africa
• Platyoides mailaka Platnick, 1985 — Madagascar
• Platyoides pictus Pocock, 1902 — South Africa
• Platyoides pirie Platnick, 1985 — South Africa
• Platyoides pusillus Pocock, 1898 — Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Platyoides quinquedentatus Purcell, 1907 — South Africa
• Platyoides ravina Andriamalala & Ubick, 2007 — Madagascar
• Platyoides rossi Platnick, 1985 — South Africa
• Platyoides vao Andriamalala & Ubick, 2007 — Madagascar
• Platyoides velonus Platnick, 1985 — Madagascar
• Platyoides venturus Platnick, 1985 — Canary Islands
• Platyoides walteri (Karsch, 1886) — East, Southern Africa, introduced in Australia