Chilobrachys

Chilobrachys
Adult male, in India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Subfamily:	Selenocosmiinae
Genus:	Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892[1]
Type species
C. nitelinus Karsch, 1892
Species
28, see text

Chilobrachys is a genus of Asian tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1892.^[2]

Species[]

As of December 2019 it contains twenty-eight species, found in Asia:^[1]

• Chilobrachys andersoni (Pocock, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Malaysia
• Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
• Hirst, 1909 – India
• (Pocock, 1895) – Myanmar
• (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Chilobrachys dyscolus (Simon, 1886) – Vietnam
• Pocock, 1900 – India
• Chilobrachys fimbriatus Pocock, 1899 – India
• (Simon, 1884) – India, Myanmar
• (Pocock, 1895) – India
• Chilobrachys guangxiensis (Yin & Tan, 2000) – China
• (Pocock, 1895) – India
• (Tikader, 1977) – India
• Schmidt & Huber, 1996 – Thailand
• Song & Zhao, 1988 – China
• Nanayakkara, Sumanapala & Kirk, 2019 – Sri Lanka
• (Tikader, 1977) – India
• Zhu & Zhang, 2008 – China
• Chilobrachys nitelinus Karsch, 1892 (type) – Sri Lanka
• (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
• (Simon, 1886) – Thailand
• (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
• (Thorell, 1887) – Myanmar
• (Wood Mason, 1877) – India
• (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
• Pocock, 1900 – India
• Schenkel, 1963 – China

In synonymy:

• C. decoratus (Tikader, 1977) = Chilobrachys fimbriatus Pocock, 1899
• C. jingzhao Zhu, Song & Li, 2001 = Chilobrachys guangxiensis (Yin & Tan, 2000)

See also[]

• List of Theraphosidae species

References[]