Prychia

Prychia is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.^[2]

Prychia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Prychia L. Koch, 1875[1]
Type species
P. gracilis L. Koch, 1875
Species
5, see text

Species

As of October 2020^[update] it contains five species, found on Fiji, in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and on the Polynesian Islands:^[1]

• Prychia gracilis L. Koch, 1875 (type) – New Guinea to Fiji, Polynesia
• Prychia maculata Karsch, 1878 – New Guinea
• Prychia paalonga (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines (Mindanao)
• Prychia pallidula Strand, 1911 – New Guinea
• Prychia suavis Simon, 1897 – Philippines

See also

• List of Sparassidae species