Batesiella Explained
Batesiella is a monotypic genus of African tarantulas containing the single species, Batesiella crinita. It was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1903,[1] and is found in Cameroon.[2] It is named in honor of the collector, G. L. Bates. It was synonymized with Encyocrates from 1985 to 1990.[3] [4]
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Notes and References
- Pocock. R. I.. 1903. Some new spiders from the Camaroons collected by Mr. G. L. Bates. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 258–264. 11. 7. 10.1080/00222930308678762. Reginald Innes Pocock.
- Gen. Batesiella Pocock, 1903. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-01-31. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
- Raven. R. J.. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182. 150. Robert Raven.
- Book: Smith, A. M.. 1990. Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. 23.