Gnathopalystes Explained

Gnathopalystes is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1899.^[1]

Species

it contains ten species, found in Oceania and Asia:^[2]

• Gnathopalystes aureolus (He & Hu, 2000) – China (Hainan)
• Gnathopalystes crucifer (Simon, 1880) – Malaysia or Indonesia (Java)
• Gnathopalystes denticulatus (Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007) – India
• Gnathopalystes ferox Rainbow, 1899 (type) – Vanuatu
• Gnathopalystes flavidus (Simon, 1897) – Pakistan, India
• Gnathopalystes ignicomus (L. Koch, 1875) – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland, New Britain)
• Gnathopalystes kochi (Simon, 1880) – India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo)
• Gnathopalystes nigriventer (Kulczyński, 1910) – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
• Gnathopalystes nigrocornutus (Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Gnathopalystes rutilans (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Gnathopalystes taiwanensis Zhu & Tso, 2006 – Taiwan

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

External links

• Biolib

Notes and References

1. Rainbow. W. J.. 1899. Contribution to a knowledge of the araneidan fauna of Santa Cruz. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 304–321. 24. 10.5962/bhl.part.7667. free.
2. Gen. Gnathopalystes Rainbow, 1899. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.