Biology:Prychia

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Prychia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Prychia
L. Koch, 1875[1]
Type species
P. gracilis
L. Koch, 1875
Species

5, see text

Prychia is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.[2]

Species

(As of October 2020) it contains five species, found on Fiji, in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines , and on the Polynesian Islands:[1]

  • Prychia gracilis L. Koch, 1875 (type) – New Guinea to Fiji, Polynesia
  • Prychia maculata Karsch, 1878 – New Guinea
  • Prychia paalonga (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines (Mindanao)
  • Prychia pallidula Strand, 1911 – New Guinea
  • Prychia suavis Simon, 1897Philippines

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Prychia L. Koch, 1875. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3144. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. Koch, L. (1875). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 577–740. 

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