Phlogiellus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. They are found throughout Asia and Papua New Guinea, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, Borneo, Thailand, the Solomon Islands and Taiwan. Phlogiellus is part Latin and part Greek, the first part being "φλóξ φλoγóϛ", meaning flame, the second part being "ellus" which is a latin diminutive suffix.
Diagnosis The can be distinguished thanks to the scopulae on tarsi 1 and 4, which were divided. There is also a stridulating organ present but reduced. They also own thin and elongated chelicerate strikers, which are pallid in color. Their size is also smaller than most other tarantulas.
Species it contains twenty-six species and one subspecies, found in Asia, on the Solomon Islands, and in Papua New Guinea: Phlogiellus aper (Simon, 1891) – Indonesia (Java) Phlogiellus atriceps Pocock, 1897 (type) – Indonesia (Java) Phlogiellus baeri (Simon, 1877) – Philippines Phlogiellus bicolor Strand, 1911 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain) Phlogiellus bogadeki Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016 – China (Hong Kong) Phlogiellus brevipes (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar Phlogiellus bundokalbo (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines Phlogiellus daweiensis Sivayyapram & Warrit, 2020 - Myanmar Phlogiellus inermis (Ausserer, 1871) – Malaysia to Indonesia (Lombok) Phlogiellus insulanus (Hirst, 1909) – Indonesia (Sulawesi) Phlogiellus i. borneoensis (Schmidt, 2015) – Borneo Phlogiellus insularis (Simon, 1877) – Philippines Phlogiellus jiaxiangi Lin & Li, 2021 - China Phlogiellus johnreylazoi Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016 – Philippines (Palawan Is.) Phlogiellus longipalpus Chomphuphuang, Smith, Wongvilas, Sivayyapram, Songsangchote & Warrit, 2017 – Thailand Phlogiellus moniqueverdezae Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016 – Thailand Phlogiellus mutus (Giltay, 1935) – Philippines Phlogiellus nebulosus (Rainbow, 1899) – Solomon Is. Phlogiellus obscurus (Hirst, 1909) – Malaysia (Borneo) Phlogiellus ornatus (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar Phlogiellus orophilus (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar Phlogiellus pelidnus Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016 – Malaysia (Borneo) Phlogiellus quanyui Lin, Li & Chen, 2021 - China (Hainan) Phlogiellus raveni Sivayyapram & Warrit, 2020 - Philippines (Cebu) Phlogiellus subinermis (Giltay, 1934) – Southeast Asia Phlogiellus watasei (Kishida, 1920) – Taiwan Phlogiellus xinping (Zhu & Zhang, 2008) – Hong Kong
Formerly included:
Phlogiellus kwebaburdeos Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Rasalan, 2015 → Orphnaecus kwebaburdeos
Phlogiellus lucubrans (L. Koch, 1874) → Selenocosmia crassipes Phlogiellus subarmatus (Thorell, 1891) → Chilobrachys subarmatus
See also Phlotoxin 1
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