Platyoides
Sign in to savePlatyoides is a genus of spiders belonging to the family Trochanteriidae. Its members are known as scorpion spiders and are found in sub-Saharan Africa and its islands, Madagascar, Réunion, Aldabra and the Canary Islands.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 130
- Family
- Trochanteriidae
- Collections
- SAM, CASC, MNRJ, ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Namibia, áFrica Do Sul
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Trochanteriidae
- Image
- Platyoides00.jpg
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- Commons category
- Platyoides
- taxon name
- Platyoides
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- O.P.-Cambridge, 1890
- topic's main category
- Category:Platyoides
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Origin of the word 'Platyoides'
- Common names
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Description
- Similar Species
- Solifugae
- Behaviour
- Distribution and habitat
- Other locations
- Risk to humans
- References
Platyoides is a genus of spiders belonging to the family Trochanteriidae. Its members are known as scorpion spiders and are found in sub-Saharan Africa and its islands, Madagascar, Réunion, Aldabra and the Canary Islands.
The genus is nocturnal in habit and has developed extreme flattening of the body adapted to living in narrow cracks, particularly under loose bark.
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