Gnathopalystes

Gnathopalystes is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1899.^[2]

Gnathopalystes
Museum specimen of Gnathopalystes kochi from Myanmar
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Gnathopalystes Rainbow, 1899[1]
Type species
G. ferox Rainbow, 1899
Species
11, see text

Species

As of November 2022^[update] it contains ten species, found in Oceania and Asia:^[1]

• Gnathopalystes aureolus (He & Hu, 2000) – China (Hainan)
• Gnathopalystes crucifer (Simon, 1880) – Malaysia or Indonesia (Java)
• Gnathopalystes denticulatus (Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007) – India
• Gnathopalystes ferox Rainbow, 1899 (type) – Vanuatu
• Gnathopalystes flavidus (Simon, 1897) – Pakistan, India
• Gnathopalystes ignicomus (L. Koch, 1875) – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland, New Britain)
• Gnathopalystes kochi (Simon, 1880) – India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo)
• Gnathopalystes nigriventer (Kulczyński, 1910) – New Guinea, Solomon Is.
• Gnathopalystes nigrocornutus (Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Gnathopalystes rutilans (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Gnathopalystes taiwanensis Zhu & Tso, 2006 – Taiwan

See also

• List of Sparassidae species