Prychia

Short description: Genus of spiders

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

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

## 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

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Prychia L. Koch, 1875. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3144. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. ↑ Koch, L. (1875). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 577–740.

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