Pterinochilus#Species
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Pterinochilus
| image = Pterinochilus_murinus.jpg
| image_caption = Pterinochilus murinus
| authority = Pocock, 1897
| type_species = P. vorax
| type_species_authority = Pocock, 1897
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 10, see text
| synonyms = *Pterinochilides Strand, 1920{{cite journal| last=Laurent| first=R.| year=1946| title=Notes arachnologiques africaines II.-Sur quelques théraphosides du Congo Belge (Ischnocolinae, Eumenophorinae, Selenocosmiinae)| journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines| volume=39| page=323}}
}}
Pterinochilus is a genus of baboon spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.{{cite journal| last=Pocock| first=R. I.| year=1897| title=On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=46–48| volume=65| issue=3| author-link=Reginald Innes Pocock}} They are found all throughout Africa.
Species
{{as of|2022|07}} it contains ten species, all found in Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-06-08| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3418| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Pterinochilus alluaudi Berland, 1914 – Kenya
- Pterinochilus andrewsmithi Gallon, 2009 – Kenya
- Pterinochilus chordatus (Gerstäcker, 1873) – East Africa
- Pterinochilus cryptus Gallon, 2008 – Angola
- Pterinochilus lapalala Gallon & Engelbrecht, 2011 – South Africa
- Pterinochilus lugardi Pocock, 1900 – Southern, East Africa
- Pterinochilus murinus Pocock, 1897 – Angola, Central, East, Southern Africa
- Pterinochilus raygabrieli Gallon, 2009 – Kenya
- Pterinochilus simoni Berland, 1917 – Angola, Congo
- Pterinochilus vorax Pocock, 1897 (type) – Angola, Central, East Africa
= In synonymy =
{{Div col|content=* Pterinochilus affinis Tullgren, 1910 = Pterinochilus chordatus
- Pterinochilus brunellii Caporiacco, 1940 = Pterinochilus chordatus
- Pterinochilus carnivorus Strand, 1917 = Pterinochilus chordatus
- Pterinochilus flavipilosus (Lawrence, 1936) = Pterinochilus lugardi
- Pterinochilus hindei Hirst, 1907 = Pterinochilus murinus
- Pterinochilus leetzi Schmidt, 2002 = Pterinochilus murinus
- Pterinochilus mamillatus Strand, 1906 = Pterinochilus murinus
- Pterinochilus mutus Strand, 1920 = Pterinochilus simoni
- Pterinochilus obenbergeri (Strand, 1920) = Pterinochilus simoni
- Pterinochilus occidentalis Strand, 1920 = Pterinochilus simoni
- Pterinochilus pluridentatus (Hewitt, 1919) = Pterinochilus lugardi
- Pterinochilus raptor Strand, 1906 = Pterinochilus chordatus
- Pterinochilus raveni (Smith, 1990) = Pterinochilus chordatus
- Pterinochilus sjostedti Tullgren, 1910 = Pterinochilus chordatus
- Pterinochilus tenuitibialis (Schmidt & Gelling, 2000) = Pterinochilus lugardi
- Pterinochilus widenmanni Strand, 1906 = Pterinochilus chordatus|colwidth=30em}}
= Formerly included =
{{Div col|colwidth=30em|content=*P. breyeri Hewitt, 1919 → Augacephalus breyeri
- P. constrictus (Gerstäcker, 1873) → Eucratoscelus constrictus
- P. crassispinus Purcell, 1902 → Idiothele nigrofulva
- P. junodi Simon, 1904 → Augacephalus junodi
- P. meridionalis Hirst, 1907 → Ceratogyrus meridionalis
- P. nigrifemur (Schmidt, 1995) → Augacephalus junodi
- P. nigrofulvus Pocock, 1898 → Idiothele nigrofulva
- P. schoenlandi Pocock, 1900 → Trichognathella schoenlandi
- P. spinifer Pocock, 1898 → Eucratoscelus constrictus}}