''Phlogiodes'' 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 ...

spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...

s in the

tarantula Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae. , 1,100 species have been identified, with 166 genera. The term "tarantula" is usually used to describe members of the family Theraphosidae, although ...

family Theraphosidae, found in India. , a single species is accepted, ''Phlogiodes validus''. The species has been transferred back and forth between ''Phlogiodes'' and ''

Haploclastus ''Haploclastus'' is a genus of Indian tarantulas (family Theraphosidae) that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1892. The genus '' Phlogiodes'' has been synonymized with ''Haploclastus'' by some authors. Description They can be distinguis ...

''.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Phlogiodes'' was erected by

Reginald Pocock Reginald Innes Pocock, (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's Sch ...

in 1899. He described two species, ''Phlogiodes validus'' from a male specimen and ''Phlogiodes robustus'' from a female specimen. He considered the male and female to be too different to be the same species. In 1985,

Robert Raven Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum. Dr Raven has described over 450 species of spider in Australia and elsewhere, and is spider ...

sank ''Phlogiodes'' into ''

''. In 2010, Pocock's two ''Phlogiodes'' species were synonymized and transferred to ''Haploclastus'' as ''Haploclastus validus''. In 2013, ''H. validus'' was restored to ''Phlogiodes'', the placement accepted by the

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. In 2024, the species was again placed in ''Haploclastus''.

References

Theraphosidae Monotypic Theraphosidae genera {{Theraphosidae-stub