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}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

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}}

= In synonymy =

{{Div col|content=* Pterinochilus affinis Tullgren, 1910 = Pterinochilus chordatus

= Formerly included =

{{Div col|colwidth=30em|content=*P. breyeri Hewitt, 1919Augacephalus breyeri

See also

References