Poecilopachys

Poecilopachys
Two spined spider (Poecilopachys australasia) from New Zealand
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Subfamily:	Cyrtarachninae s.l.
Genus:	Poecilopachys Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
P. australasia (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
Species
5, see text

Poecilopachys is a genus of Australasian orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains five species:[1]

• Poecilopachys australasia (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Samoa
• Poecilopachys jenningsi (Rainbow, 1899) – Vanuatu
• Poecilopachys minutissima Chrysanthus, 1971 – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
• Poecilopachys speciosa (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland)
• Poecilopachys verrucosa (L. Koch, 1871) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland), Samoa

References

1. "Gen. Poecilopachys Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
2. Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.