Biology:Phlogiodes
Phlogiodes is a genus of spiders in the tarantula family Theraphosidae, found in India. As of January 2025[update], a single species is accepted, Phlogiodes validus.[1] The species has been transferred back and forth between Phlogiodes and Haploclastus.[2]
Taxonomy
The genus Phlogiodes was erected by Reginald Pocock in 1899. He described two species, Phlogiodes validus from a male specimen and Phlogiodes robustus from a female specimen. He considered the male and female to be too different to be the same species.[3] In 1985, Robert Raven sank Phlogiodes into Haploclastus.[4] In 2010, Pocock's two Phlogiodes species were synonymized and transferred to Haploclastus as Haploclastus validus.[5] In 2013, H. validus was restored to Phlogiodes, the placement accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of January 2025[update].[1] In 2024, the species was again placed in Haploclastus.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Phlogiodes Pocock, 1899", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/4749, retrieved 2025-01-18
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mirza, Z. A. (2024), "Systematics of the Western Ghats endemic tarantula subfamily Thrigmopoeinae with the description of a new genus and four new species", Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa" 67 (2): 183–234, doi:10.3897/travaux.67.e112517
- ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1899), "Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida", Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 12 (4): 744–753, https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/1162
- ↑ Raven, R. J. (1985), "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 157
- ↑ Mirza, Z. A.; Sanap, R. (2013), "Revalidation of the tarantula genus Phlogiodes Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Thrigmopoeinae)", Indian Journal of Arachnology 2 (2): 17–21, https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/12426
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