Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010] Back
Gen.
Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00273 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Pterinochilides Strand, 1920: 99 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05131] (type P. obenbergeri Strand, 1920 = Pterinochilus simoni Berland, 1917) by Laurent, 1946: 323; not a senior synonym of Idiothele Hewitt, 1919 (transferred from the Barychelidae by Benoit, 1964d: 412), per Gallon, 2002: 223, contra Raven, 1985a: 154.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2020-06-05
2020-06-05
Described in
Pocock, 1897b: 752 (type Pterinochilus vorax Pocock, 1897; gender masculine)
Pocock, 1897b: 752 (type Pterinochilus vorax Pocock, 1897; gender masculine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 10 | accepted |
| 16 | synonym |
Reference
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Pocock, R. I. (1897b). 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 65(3): 724-774, pl. 46-48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x 
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