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Genus: Plesiophrictus Pocock, 1899 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Plesiophrictus millardi Pocock, 1899

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002343

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Described:

Distribution: India

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (2205/17) of Plesiophrictus satarensis - (Guadanucci, 2011b)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m - (Guadanucci, 2011b)

Taxonomic References

Plesiophrictus millardi Pocock, 1899d: 749 (Dm) Original description

Plesiophrictus satarensis Gravely, 1915: 274, pl. 15, f. 3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002346]

Plesiophrictus satarensis Siliwal, Molur & Raven, 2007: 2859, image 29 (f)

Plesiophrictus millardi Guadanucci, 2011b: 523, f. 3-7 (mf, S of Plesiophrictus satarensis)

Plesiophrictus millardi Sanap & Mirza, 2013: 7, f. 1A-B, 2A-G, 3A-D, 4A-D, 5 (mf; N.B.: female of P. satarensis Gravely, 1915 may be misidentified)

Plesiophrictus millardi Bharat et al., 2014: 6, f. 2.1-6 (m)

References

Bharat N., P., Harshil, P., Ramesh, T., Shantilal K., T. & Arun H., D. (2014). First record of Plesiophrictus millardi Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Gujarat, India. Research Journal of Animal, Veterinary and Fishery Sciences 2(5): 6-9. -- Show included taxa

Gravely, F. H. (1915). Notes on Indian mygalomorph spiders. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 11: 257-287. -- Show included taxa

Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2011b). The genus Plesiophrictus Pocock and revalidation of Heterophrictus Pocock (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of Arachnology 39(3): 523-527. doi: 10.1636/A10-53.1 -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1899d). Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 12(4): 744-753. -- Show included taxa

Sanap, R. V. & Mirza, Z. A. (2013). First description of female Plesiophrictus millardi Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taprobanica 5(1): 6-11, pl. 1-2. doi: 10.47605/tapro.v5i1.84 -- Show included taxa

Siliwal, M., Molur, S. & Raven, R. (2007). A new species of the genus Plesiophrictus (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae) from western Ghats, India. Zoo's Print Journal 22: 2853-2860. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2014-10-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Bharat et al., 2014