Prychia
Appearance
Prychia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Sparassidae |
Genus: | Prychia L. Koch, 1875[1] |
Type species | |
P. gracilis L. Koch, 1875
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Species | |
5, see text |
Prychia is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.[2]
Species
[edit]As of October 2020[update] it contains five species, found on Fiji, in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and on the Polynesian Islands:[1]
- Prychia gracilis L. Koch, 1875 (type) – New Guinea to Fiji, Polynesia
- Prychia maculata Karsch, 1878 – New Guinea
- Prychia paalonga (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines (Mindanao)
- Prychia pallidula Strand, 1911 – New Guinea
- Prychia suavis Simon, 1897 – Philippines
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Prychia L. Koch, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Koch, L. (1875). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 577–740.