Phlogiodes

Phlogiodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Phlogiodes; Pocock, 1899
Species:	P. validus
Binomial name
	Phlogiodes validus; Pocock, 1899
Synonyms
	Haploclastus validus (Pocock, 1899) ; Phlogiodes robustus Pocock, 1899 ;

Phlogiodes is a genus of spiders in the tarantula family Theraphosidae, found in India. As of January 2025, a single species is accepted, Phlogiodes validus.¹ The species has been transferred back and forth between Phlogiodes and Haploclastus.²

Taxonomy

The genus Phlogiodes was erected by Reginald Pocock in 1899. He described two species, Phlogiodes validus from a male specimen and Phlogiodes robustus from a female specimen. He considered the male and female to be too different to be the same species.³ In 1985, Robert Raven sank Phlogiodes into Haploclastus.⁴ In 2010, Pocock's two Phlogiodes species were synonymized and transferred to Haploclastus as Haploclastus validus.⁵ In 2013, H. validus was restored to Phlogiodes, the placement accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of January 2025.¹ In 2024, the species was again placed in Haploclastus.²

References

"Gen. Phlogiodes Pocock, 1899", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2025-01-18
Mirza, Z. A. (2024), "Systematics of the Western Ghats endemic tarantula subfamily Thrigmopoeinae with the description of a new genus and four new species", Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa", 67 (2): 183–234, doi:10.3897/travaux.67.e112517
Pocock, R. I. (1899), "Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida", Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 12 (4): 744–753 – via World Spider Catalog
Raven, R. J. (1985), "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 182: 157
Mirza, Z. A. & Sanap, R. (2013), "Revalidation of the tarantula genus Phlogiodes Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Thrigmopoeinae)", Indian Journal of Arachnology, 2 (2): 17–21 – via World Spider Catalog

[WSC_g4749-1] "Gen. Phlogiodes Pocock, 1899", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2025-01-18

[Mirz24-2] Mirza, Z. A. (2024), "Systematics of the Western Ghats endemic tarantula subfamily Thrigmopoeinae with the description of a new genus and four new species", Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa", 67 (2): 183–234, doi:10.3897/travaux.67.e112517

[Poco99-3] Pocock, R. I. (1899), "Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida", Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 12 (4): 744–753 – via World Spider Catalog

[Rave1985-4] Raven, R. J. (1985), "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 182: 157

[MirzSana13-5] Mirza, Z. A. & Sanap, R. (2013), "Revalidation of the tarantula genus Phlogiodes Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Thrigmopoeinae)", Indian Journal of Arachnology, 2 (2): 17–21 – via World Spider Catalog

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