Encyocrates

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Encyocrates raffrayi

| authority = Simon, 1892

| parent_authority = Simon, 1892

}}

Encyocrates is a monotypic genus of African tarantulas found on Madagascar containing the single species, Encyocrates raffrayi.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Encyocrates Simon, 1892| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-04-11| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3350| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}} The female was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892,{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1892| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 24e Mémoire. XXXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Aviculariidae (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=271–284| volume=61| doi=10.1080/21686351.1892.12278480| author-link=Eugène Simon}} and the male was described by Lucien Berland in 1917.{{cite journal| last=Berland| first=L.| year=1917| title=Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'aviculariides africaines (Araneae: Aviculariidae)| journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris| volume=23| pages=466–481| author-link=Lucien Berland}}