''Stenochilus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of Asian

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

spiders in the

Stenochilidae Stenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk. First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873, it now contains twelve described species in two genera. Species , the World Spider Catalog The World ...

family, and was first described by

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider from a large collection that he made with contrib ...

in 1871. it contains three species, found in Asia: '' S. crocatus'', '' S. hobsoni'', and '' S. scutulatus''. It is considered a senior synonym of ''Metronax''

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Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Asia Stenochilidae Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge {{Araneomorphae-stub

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