Ornithoctonus#Species

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Ornithoctonus

| authority = Pocock, 1892

| type_species = O. andersoni

| type_species_authority = Pocock, 1892

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• O. andersoni Pocock, 1892 – Myanmar
• O. aureotibialis von Wirth & Striffler, 2005 – Thailand
• O. costalis (Schmidt, 1998) – Thailand

}}

Ornithoctonus is a genus of Southeast Asian tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1892.{{cite journal| last=Pocock| first=R. I.| year=1892| title=Supplementary notes on the Arachnida and Myriopoda of the Mergui Archipelago: with descriptions of some new species from Siam and Malaysia| journal=Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology| pages=316–326| volume=24| issue=153| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1892.tb02485.x| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/70143| author-link=Reginald Innes Pocock}} {{as of|2020|05}} it contains three species, found in Thailand and Myanmar: O. andersoni, O. aureotibialis, and O. costalis.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Ornithoctonus Pocock, 1892| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-06-06| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3400| doi=10.24436/2}}