Biology:Adelonychia

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Adelonychia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Barychelidae
Genus: Adelonychia
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890[1]
Type species
Adelonychia walshi
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890[1]
Species

See text.

Adelonychia is a genus of mygalomorph spider in the family Barychelidae, containing four species restricted to India and Sri Lanka.[1][2] It formerly belonged in the genus Diplothele.

Species

(As of January 2022), the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Adelonychia gravelyi Siliwal, Molur & Raven, 2009 – India
  • Adelonychia halyi Simon, 1892 – Sri Lanka
  • Adelonychia tenebrosus Siliwal, Molur & Raven, 2009 – India
  • Adelonychia walshi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890 – India

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Gen. Diplothele O. P-Cambridge, 1890". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/445. Retrieved 13 December 2023. 
  2. Siliwal, Manju; Molur, Sanjay; Raven, Robert (2009). "Two new species of the genus Diplothele (Araneae, Barychelidae) from Orissa, India with notes on D. walshi". The Journal of Arachnology. http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v37_n2/arac-37-02-178.pdf. Retrieved 22 April 2016. 

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