Encyocrates

Encyocrates is a monotypic genus of African tarantulas found on Madagascar containing the single species, Encyocrates raffrayi.^[1] The female was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892,^[2] and the male was described by Lucien Berland in 1917.^[3]

Encyocrates
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Encyocrates Simon, 1892[1]
Species:	E. raffrayi
Binomial name
Encyocrates raffrayi Simon, 1892

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species