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| Museum specimen of Gnathopalystes kochi from Myanmar | |
Scientific classification 
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| : | [[Template:Taxonomy/Gnathopalystes]] Rainbow, 1899[1] |
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| G. ferox Rainbow, 1899
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Gnathopalystes is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1899.[2]
Species[edit | edit source]
As of September 2019[update] it contains ten species, found in Oceania and Asia:[1]
- Gnathopalystes aureolus (He & Hu, 2000) ā China (Hainan)
- Gnathopalystes crucifer (Simon, 1880) ā Malaysia or Indonesia (Java)
- Gnathopalystes denticulatus (Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007) ā India
- Gnathopalystes ferox Rainbow, 1899 (type) ā Vanuatu
- Gnathopalystes ignicomus (L. Koch, 1875) ā Papua New Guinea (New Ireland, New Britain)
- Gnathopalystes kochi (Simon, 1880) ā India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo)
- Gnathopalystes nigriventer (KulczyÅski, 1910) ā New Guinea, Solomon Is.
- Gnathopalystes nigrocornutus (Merian, 1911) ā Indonesia (Sulawesi)
- Gnathopalystes rutilans (Simon, 1899) ā Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Gnathopalystes taiwanensis Zhu & Tso, 2006 ā Taiwan
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ā 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Gnathopalystes Rainbow, 1899". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ā Rainbow, W. J. (1899). "Contribution to a knowledge of the araneidan fauna of Santa Cruz". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 24: 304ā321.