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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Pandercetes
| image = Bark_spider.jpg
| image_caption = ''Pandercetes'' cf. ''celatus'' from the Western Ghats showing typical cryptic patterning
| authority = [[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch|L. Koch]], 1875<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[[Pandercetes gracilis|P. gracilis]]''
| type_species_authority = L. Koch, 1875
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 16, [[#Species|see text]]
}}
'''''Pandercetes''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Sparassidae|huntsman spiders]] that was first described by [[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch]] in his 1875 treatise on Australian spiders.<ref name=Koch1875>{{cite book| last=Koch| first=L.| year=1875| title=Die Arachniden Australiens| publisher=Nürnberg 1| pages=577–740| author-link=Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch}}</ref> They are mainly distributed in [[tropics|tropical]] Asia and Australia, and are known for their [[crypsis#Visual|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 [[Thorax_(insect_anatomy)|thoracic]] region low and flat.<ref>{{cite book| title=The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida| author=Pocock, R.I.| year=1909| publisher= Taylor and Francis| place=London|pages=259–265| url=https://archive.org/stream/arachnida00poco#page/264/mode/2up}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/terrzool/arachnologie/heteropodinae_jaeger_2002.pdf |title= Heteropodinae: Transfers and Synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae : Sparassidae)| author= Jäger, Peter| journal =Acta Arachnologica| volume=51| issue=1| pages=33–61 |year=2002}}</ref>

==Species==
[[File:Moss spider.jpg |thumb|left|Showing moss-like appearance and the head elevated above the plane of the cephalothorax]]
{{as of|2019|10}} it contains sixteen species and one subspecies, found in tropical forests in Asia, extending east to Australia:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Pandercetes L. Koch, 1875| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-11-13| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3138| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
*''[[Pandercetes celatus]]'' [[Reginald Innes Pocock|Pocock]], 1899 – [[India]]
*''[[Pandercetes celebensis]]'' Merian, 1911 – [[Indonesia]] ([[Sulawesi]])
**''[[Pandercetes celebensis|Pandercetes c. vulcanicola]]'' Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
*''[[Pandercetes decipiens]]'' Pocock, 1899 – India, [[Sri Lanka]]
*''[[Pandercetes gracilis]]'' L. Koch, 1875 ([[Type_species|type]]) – Indonesia ([[Moluccas]], Sulawesi), New Guinea, [[Australia]] ([[Queensland]])
*''[[Pandercetes isopus]]'' [[Tamerlan Thorell|Thorell]], 1881 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
*''[[Pandercetes longipes]]'' Thorell, 1881 – Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.)
*''[[Pandercetes macilentus]]'' Thorell, 1895 – [[Myanmar]]
*''[[Pandercetes malleator]]'' Thorell, 1890 – [[Malaysia]], Indonesia (Aru Is.)
*''[[Pandercetes manoius]]'' [[Carl Friedrich Roewer|Roewer]], 1938 – New Guinea
*''[[Pandercetes niger]]'' Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
*''[[Pandercetes nigrogularis]]'' ([[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1897) – Indonesia ([[Java]])
*''[[Pandercetes ochreus]]'' [[Henry Roughton Hogg|Hogg]], 1922 – [[Vietnam]]
*''[[Pandercetes palliventris]]'' [[Embrik Strand|Strand]], 1911 – New Guinea
*''[[Pandercetes peronianus]]'' ([[Charles Athanase Walckenaer|Walckenaer]], 1837) – [[New Zealand]]
*''[[Pandercetes plumipes]]'' ([[Carl Ludwig Doleschall|Doleschall]], 1859) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Ambon), New Guinea
*''[[Pandercetes plumosus]]'' Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea ([[New Britain]])

==See also==
* [[List of Sparassidae species]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f4af45ff-328f-4821-ae39-0ca50a49882a Atlas of Living Australia]
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[[Category:Araneomorphae genera]]
[[Category:Sparassidae]]
[[Category:Spiders of Asia]]
[[Category:Spiders of Australia]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch]]

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