Barylestis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Sparassoidea

Familia: Sparassidae
Subfamilia: Heteropodinae
Genus: Barylestis
Species: B. blaisei – B. fagei – B. insularis – B. montandoni – B. nigripectus – B. occidentalis – B. peltatus – B. saaristoi – B. scutatus – B. variatus
Name

Barylestis Simon, 1910

Type species: Heteropoda blaisei Simon, 1903
References

Simon, E. 1910. Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova 44: 335–449. [339]
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Barylestis is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1910.[2]
Species

As of May 2022 it contains ten species, all found in Africa, except B. saaristoi, from Thailand and Myanmar:[1]

Barylestis blaisei (Simon, 1903) (type) – Gabon
Barylestis fagei (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Rwanda
Barylestis insularis Simon, 1910 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
Barylestis manni (Strand, 1906) – Nigeria - Nomen dubium
Barylestis montandoni (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Uganda
Barylestis nigripectus Simon, 1910 – Congo
Barylestis occidentalis (Simon, 1887) – Congo, Uganda, Sudan
Barylestis peltatus (Strand, 1916) – Central Africa
Barylestis saaristoi Jäger, 2008 – China, Thailand, Myanmar
Barylestis scutatus (Pocock, 1903) – Cameroon
Barylestis variatus (Pocock, 1900) – West Africa. Introduced to Northern Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Rep.