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Genus of spiders

Platocoelotes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: _Platocoelotes_Wang, 2002[1]
Type species
P. impletus(Peng & Wang, 1997)
Species
23, see text

Platocoelotes is a genus of East Asian funnel weavers first described by X. P. Wang in 2002.[2] They are all found in China except for Platocoelotes uenoi, found in Japan.[1]

As of April 2019[update] it contains twenty-three species:[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Platocoelotes Wang, 2002". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  2. ^ Wang, X. P. (2002). "A generic-level revision of the spider subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 269: 1–150. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)269<0001:AGLROT>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 83668330.

"Platocoelotes". The Encyclopedia of Life.