Platyoides
Encyclopedia
Platyoides is a genus of spiders belonging to the family Trochanteriidae
and found in sub-Saharan Africa
and its islands, Madagascar
, Réunion
, Aldabra
and the Canary Islands
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The genus is nocturnal in habit and has developed extreme flattening of the body adapted to living in narrow cracks.
Trochanteriidae
The Trochanteriidae are a spider family with 149 species in 18 genera.-Distribution:Most genera are endemic to Australia.Doliomalus is endemic to Chile, Trochanteria to Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil....
and found in sub-Saharan Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and its islands, Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
, Réunion
Réunion
Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...
, Aldabra
Aldabra
Aldabra, the world's second largest coral atoll, is in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that form part of the Seychelles. Uninhabited and extremely isolated, Aldabra is virtually untouched by humans, has distinctive island fauna including the Aldabra Giant Tortoise, and is...
and the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
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The genus is nocturnal in habit and has developed extreme flattening of the body adapted to living in narrow cracks.
Platyoides species
Platyoides O. P.-Cambridge, 1890- Platyoides alpha Lawrence, 1928 — Angola, Namibia, South Africa
- Platyoides costeri Tucker, 1923 — South Africa
- Platyoides fitzsimonsi Lawrence, 1938 — Namibia
- Platyoides grandidieri Simon, 1903 — Kenya, Madagascar, Aldabra, Réunion
- Platyoides leppanae Pocock, 1902 — Mozambique, South Africa
- Platyoides mailaka Platnick, 1985 — Madagascar
- Platyoides pictus Pocock, 1902 — South Africa
- Platyoides pirie Platnick, 1985 — South Africa
- Platyoides pusillus Pocock, 1898 — Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Platyoides quinquedentatus Purcell, 1907 — South Africa
- Platyoides ravina Andriamalala & Ubick, 2007 — Madagascar
- Platyoides rossi Platnick, 1985 — South Africa
- Platyoides vao Andriamalala & Ubick, 2007 — Madagascar
- Platyoides velonus Platnick, 1985 — Madagascar
- Platyoides venturus Platnick, 1985 — Canary Islands
- Platyoides walteri (Karsch, 1886) — East, Southern Africa, introduced in Australia