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Psednocnemis

Psednocnemis is a genus of Southeast Asian tarantulas that was first described by R. C. West, S. C. Nunn & Henry Roughton Hogg in 2012.

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Length
169 w
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Source
Psednocnemis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Subfamily: Selenocosmiinae
Genus: Psednocnemis
West, Nunn & Hogg, 20121
Type species
P. davidgohi
West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012
Species

5, see text

Psednocnemis is a genus of Southeast Asian tarantulas that was first described by R. C. West, S. C. Nunn & Henry Roughton Hogg in 2012.2

Species

As of May 2020 it contains five species, found in Indonesia and Malaysia:1

  • Psednocnemis brachyramosa (West & Nunn, 2010)Malaysia
  • Psednocnemis davidgohi West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012 (type) – Malaysia
  • Psednocnemis gnathospina (West & Nunn, 2010) – Malaysia
  • Psednocnemis imbellis (Simon, 1891)Borneo
  • Psednocnemis jeremyhuffi (West & Nunn, 2010) – Malaysia
References

References

  1. "Gen. Psednocnemis West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  2. West, R. C.; Nunn, S. C.; Hogg, S. (2012). "A new tarantula genus, Psednocnemis, from west Malaysia (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with cladistic analysis and biogeography of Selenocosmiinae Simon 1889". Zootaxa. 3299: 1–43. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3299.1.1.