Brachionopus Explained

Brachionopus is a genus of South African tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.^[1] It was transferred to the Theraphosidae from the Barychelidae in 1985.^[2]

Species

it contains 4 species, found in South Africa:^[3]

• Brachionopus annulatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Brachionopus pretoriae Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
• Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897 (type) – South Africa
• Brachionopus tristis Purcell, 1903 – South Africa

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

Notes and References

1. 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. 724–774. 65. 3. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x. Reginald Innes Pocock.
2. Raven. R. J.. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182. 112. Robert Raven.
3. Gen. Brachionopus Pocock, 1897. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-01-31. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.