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Harpactirinae

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Also known as Southern Baboon Spiders

The Harpactirinae (commonly called baboon spiders) are a subfamily of tarantulas which are native to the continent of Africa. Like many Old World tarantulas, they have a relatively strong venom and can inflict a painful bite.

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Vinony's link graph records 22 inbound references to Harpactirinae, and connects out to Pterinochilus murinus, Pterinochilus and Ceratogyrus darlingi.

It is catalogued under topics including Spiders of Africa, Spider subfamilies and Theraphosidae.

Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Theraphosidae
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Pterinochilus murinus.jpg
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Commons category
Harpactirinae
taxon name
Harpactirinae
taxon rank
subfamily
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The Harpactirinae (commonly called baboon spiders) are a subfamily of tarantulas which are native to the continent of Africa. Like many Old World tarantulas, they have a relatively strong venom and can inflict a painful bite.

==Description==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harpactirinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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