Augacephalus
| Augacephalus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Subfamily: | Harpactirinae |
| Genus: | Augacephalus Gallon, 2002[1] |
| Species | |
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Augacephalus breyeri Augacephalus ezendami Augacephalus junodi | |
| Diversity | |
| 3 species | |
Augacephalus is a genus of
Taxonomy and etymology
The type species of Augacephalus is A. breyeri which was described as Pterinochilus breyeri by Hewitt in 1919. In 2002, Gallon placed it a new genus, which he erected in the same paper, Augacephalus.[1][2]
Its name comes from the Greek αυγή auga meaning "sun rays" and κεφᾰλή kephale meaning "head" which refers to the prominent, radial cephalothorax striae present in most species.[2]
Natural history
All known species are fossorial and females lay eggs in a hammock egg-sack which yield about 95 spiderlings.[2][3]
Diagnosis
Augacephalus is separated from other harpactirines in the following ways: Distinguished from
Species
The World Spider Catalog accepts the following species:[1]
- Augacephalus breyeri Hewitt, 1919 South Africa, Mozambique, Eswatini (type species)
- Augacephalus ezendami Gallon, 2001 Mozambique
- Augacephalus junodi Simon, 1904 East, South Africa
References
- ^ a b c d Augacephalus Gallon, 2002. World Spider Catalog. NMBE. Retrieved August, 2016
- ^ a b c d Gallon, R. C. (2002). Revision of the African genera Pterinochilus and Eucratoscelus (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Harpactirinae) with description of two new genera. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 201-232
- ^ Gallon, R. C. (2010). On some southern African Harpactirinae, with notes on the eumenophorines Pelinobius muticus Karsch, 1885 and Monocentropella Strand, 1907 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 29-48