Barylestis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Barylestis Simon, 1910[1] |
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(Simon, 1903)
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Barylestis is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1910.[2]
Species[]
As of September 2019 it contains eleven species, all found in Africa, except B. saaristoi, from Thailand and Myanmar:[1]
- (Simon, 1903) (type) – Gabon
- (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Rwanda
- Simon, 1910 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
- (Strand, 1906) – Nigeria
- (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Uganda
- Simon, 1910 – Congo
- (Simon, 1887) – Congo, Uganda, Sudan
- (Strand, 1916) – Central Africa
- Jäger, 2008 – China, Thailand, Myanmar
- (Pocock, 1903) – Cameroon
- (Pocock, 1900) – West Africa. Introduced to Northern Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Rep.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Barylestis Simon, 1910". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Simon, E. (1910). "Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 44: 335–449.
Categories:
- Araneomorphae genera
- Sparassidae
- Spiders of Africa
- Spiders of Asia
- Sparassidae stubs