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Issue: Vol. 4859 No. 4: 8 Oct. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-10-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4859.4.2
Page range: 487–506
Abstract views: 231
PDF downloaded: 5

Two new species of the Southeast Asian Dwarf tarantula genus Phlogiellus Pocock, 1887 (Theraphosidae, Selenocosmiinae) and a discussion on the taxonomic problem of the genus

Center of Excellence in Entomology and Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
Center of Excellence in Entomology and Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
Center of Excellence in Entomology and Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
Araneae Burma Philippines Spider

Abstract

Phlogiellus is one of the least studied theraphosid genera; there is only one recent revision on the genus. However, the “revision” only provided several taxonomic problems in the genus by giving unclear diagnostic characters of the genus and its species, using third party information in their descriptions and many of their examined specimens of are inaccessible. Here, we discuss the taxonomic problems of the genus, and provide a new genus description and diagnostic characters of Phlogiellus by combining information from previous studies with our examinations. Variation within species of previously diagnostic characters renders them of little value. In addition, two new Phlogiellus species from Myanmar and the Philippines are described and diagnosed here.

 

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