Gnathopalystes
Gnathopalystes
Genus of spiders
Gnathopalystes is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1899.[2]
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| Gnathopalystes | |
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| Museum specimen of Gnathopalystes kochi from Myanmar | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Gnathopalystes Rainbow, 1899[1] |
| Type species | |
| G. ferox Rainbow, 1899 | |
| Species | |
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11, see text | |
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As of November 2022[update] it contains ten species, found in Oceania and Asia:[1]
- Gnathopalystes aureolus (He & Hu, 2000) – China (Hainan)
- Gnathopalystes crucifer (Simon, 1880) – Malaysia or Indonesia (Java)
- Gnathopalystes denticulatus (Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007) – India
- Gnathopalystes ferox Rainbow, 1899 (type) – Vanuatu
- Gnathopalystes flavidus (Simon, 1897) – Pakistan, India
- Gnathopalystes ignicomus (L. Koch, 1875) – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland, New Britain)
- Gnathopalystes kochi (Simon, 1880) – India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo)
- Gnathopalystes nigriventer (Kulczyński, 1910) – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
- Gnathopalystes nigrocornutus (Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
- Gnathopalystes rutilans (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Gnathopalystes taiwanensis Zhu & Tso, 2006 – Taiwan
- "Gen. Gnathopalystes Rainbow, 1899". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- Rainbow, W. J. (1899). "Contribution to a knowledge of the araneidan fauna of Santa Cruz". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 24: 304–321. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.7667.