Brachytheliscus

Brachytheliscus is a monotypic genus of southern African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae containing the single species, Brachytheliscus bicolor. It was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1902,[2] and it has only been found in South Africa.[1] It was previously considered a junior synonym of Hermacha,[3] but was moved to genus status in 2021.[4] The type species was originally described under the name "Brachythele bicolor".[5]

Brachytheliscus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Entypesidae
Genus: Brachytheliscus
Pocock, 1902[1]
Species:
B. bicolor
Binomial name
Brachytheliscus bicolor
Pocock, 1897[1]

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Brachytheliscus Pocock, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  2. Pocock, R. I. (1902). "Some new African spiders". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 10: 315–330.
  3. Hewitt, J. (1915). "Notes on several four-lunged spiders in the collection of the Durban Museum, with descriptions of two new forms". Annales of the Durban Museum. 1: 125–133.
  4. Ríos-Tamayo, D.; Engelbrecht, I.; Goloboff, P. A. (2021). "A revision of the genus Hermacha Simon, 1889 (Mygalomorphae: Entypesidae), in southern Africa with revalidation of Hermachola Hewitt, 1915, and Brachytheliscus Pocock, 1902". American Museum Novitates. 3977: 1–80. doi:10.1206/3977.1.
  5. 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, pl. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x.

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