Pandercetes

<i>Pandercetes</i>

Pandercetes

Genus of spiders

Pandercetes is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in his 1875 treatise on Australian spiders.[2] They are mainly distributed in tropical Asia and Australia, and are known for their cryptic coloration that matches local moss and lichen. Their legs have lateral hairs, giving them a feathery appearance, further masking their outline against tree trunks. Their head is somewhat elevated and the carapace has the thoracic region low and flat.[3]

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The genus is characterized by the internal anatomy of the reproductive structures. Males have irregular coils at the terminal end, while females have screw like copulatory ducts.[4]

Species

Showing moss-like appearance and the head elevated above the plane of the cephalothorax

As of October 2019 it contains sixteen species and one subspecies, found in tropical forests in Asia, extending east to Australia:[1]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Gen. Pandercetes L. Koch, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  2. [2]
    Koch, L. (1875). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 577–740.
  3. [3]
    Pocock, R.I. (1909). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 259–265.
  4. [4]
    Jäger, Peter (2002). "Heteropodinae: Transfers and Synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae : Sparassidae)" (PDF). Acta Arachnologica. 51 (1): 33–61. doi:10.2476/asjaa.51.33.
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