Brachytheliscus

Brachytheliscus is a monotypic genus of southern African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae containing the single species, Brachytheliscus bicolor. It was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1902,[2] and it has only been found in South Africa.[1] It was previously considered a junior synonym of Hermacha,[3] but was moved to genus status in 2021.[4] The type species was originally described under the name "Brachythele bicolor".[5]

Brachytheliscus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Entypesidae
Genus: Brachytheliscus
Pocock, 1902[1]
Species:
B. bicolor
Binomial name
Brachytheliscus bicolor
Pocock, 1897[1]

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Brachytheliscus Pocock, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  2. Pocock, R. I. (1902). "Some new African spiders". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 10: 315–330. doi:10.1080/00222930208678678.
  3. Hewitt, J. (1915). "Notes on several four-lunged spiders in the collection of the Durban Museum, with descriptions of two new forms". Annales of the Durban Museum. 1: 125–133.
  4. Ríos-Tamayo, D.; Engelbrecht, I.; Goloboff, P. A. (2021). "A revision of the genus Hermacha Simon, 1889 (Mygalomorphae: Entypesidae), in southern Africa with revalidation of Hermachola Hewitt, 1915, and Brachytheliscus Pocock, 1902". American Museum Novitates (3977): 1–80. doi:10.1206/3977.1. S2CID 237402341.
  5. Pocock, R. I. (1897). "On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 65 (3): 724–774, pl. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x.

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