Pherecydes (spider)
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Pherecydes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883[1] |
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Pherecydes is a genus of African crab spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1883.[2]
Species[]
As of April 2019 it contains eight species:[1]
- Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980 — South Africa
- Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980 — Tanzania
- Simon, 1895 — Tunisia
- Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980 — South Africa
- Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980 — South Africa
- O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883 — South Africa, Lesotho
- Lawrence, 1927 — West, Southern Africa
- Millot, 1942 — Burkina Faso
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Gen. Pherecydes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1883). "On some new genera and species of spiders". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 51 (3): 352–365. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1883.tb06654.x.
External links[]
"Pherecydes" at the Encyclopedia of Life
Categories:
- Araneomorphae genera
- Thomisidae
- Thomisidae stubs