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Anoploscelus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Anoploscelus
Pocock, 1897[1]
Type species
A. celeripes

Pocock, 1897

Species

Anoploscelus is a genusofEast African tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. It was erected for the species Anoploscelus celeripes, based on a single male collected near Lake Tanganyika in modern day Tanzania.[2] It was synonymized with Phoneyusa from 1985 to 1990.[3][4] As of December 2019 it contains two species, including A. lesserti, first found in Rwanda in 1946.[5][1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Anoploscelus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  • ^ Pocock, R. I. (1897). "On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 65 (3): 724–774. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x.
  • ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 149.
  • ^ Smith, A. M. (1990). Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. p. 21.
  • ^ Laurent, R. (1946). "Notes arachnologiques africaines II. -Sur quelques théraphosides du Congo Belge (Ischnocolinae, Eumenophorinae, Selenocosmiinae)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 39: 301.

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