Hysterocrates

Hysterocrates is a genus of African tarantulas that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains 18 species and one subspecies, found in Africa:

Hysterocrates apostolicus Pocock, 1900 – São Tomé and Príncipe
Hysterocrates celerierae (Smith, 1990) – Ivory Coast
Hysterocrates crassipes Pocock, 1897 – Cameroon
Hysterocrates didymus Pocock, 1900 – São Tomé and Príncipe
Hysterocrates ederi Charpentier, 1995 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
Hysterocrates efuliensis (Smith, 1990) – Cameroon
Hysterocrates elephantiasis (Berland, 1917) – Congo
Hysterocrates gigas Pocock, 1897 – Cameroon
Hysterocrates greeffi (Karsch, 1884) – Cameroon
Hysterocrates greshoffi (Simon, 1891) (type) – Congo
Hysterocrates hercules Pocock, 1900 – Nigeria
Hysterocrates laticeps Pocock, 1897 – Cameroon
Hysterocrates maximus Strand, 1906 – Cameroon
Hysterocrates ochraceus Strand, 1907 – Cameroon, Congo
Hysterocrates robustus Pocock, 1900 – Equatorial Guinea (Mbini)
- Hysterocrates r. sulcifer Strand, 1908 – Cameroon
Hysterocrates scepticus Pocock, 1900 – São Tomé and Príncipe
Hysterocrates sjostedti (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
Hysterocrates weileri Strand, 1906 – Cameroon

1 2 "Gen. Hysterocrates Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
↑ Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

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