Encyocrates
Encyocrates | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: | Encyocrates Simon, 1892[1] |
Species: | E. raffrayi |
Binomial name | |
Encyocrates raffrayi Simon, 1892[1] | |
Encyocrates is a spider genus in the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas) with the sole species Encyocrates raffrayi, native to Madagascar.[1] The genus and species were described in 1892 by Eugène Simon.[1][2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Encyocrates Simon, 1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-05-26
- ↑ Simon, Eugène (1892). "Etudes arachnologiques. 24e Mémoire. XXXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Aviculariidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (in French) (61): 271–284.
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