Anoploscelus

Anoploscelus
Scientific 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
A. celeripes Pocock, 1897 – Uganda, Tanzania A. lesserti Laurent, 1946 – Rwanda

Anoploscelus is a genus of East 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^[update] it contains two species, including A. lesserti, first found in Rwanda in 1946.[5][1]

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

References

1. "Gen. Anoploscelus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
2. 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.
3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 149.
4. Smith, A. M. (1990). Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. p. 21.
5. 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.