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Prychia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Prychia L. Koch, 1875
Type species
P. gracilis L. Koch, 1875
Species
5, see text

Prychia is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.

Species

As of October 2020 it contains five species, found on Fiji, in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and on the Polynesian Islands:

• Prychia gracilis L. Koch, 1875 (type) – New Guinea to Fiji, Polynesia
• Prychia maculata Karsch, 1878 – New Guinea
• Prychia paalonga (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines (Mindanao)
• Prychia pallidula Strand, 1911 – New Guinea
• Prychia suavis Simon, 1897 – Philippines

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

References

1. ^ "Gen. Prychia L. Koch, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Koch, L. (1875). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 577–740.

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