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Southern African Scorpion Spiders
Platyoides
Platyoides is a genus of spiders belonging to the family Trochanteriidae. Its members are known as scorpion spiders and are found in sub-Saharan Africa and its islands, Madagascar, Réunion, Aldabra and the Canary Islands.
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common Scorpion Spider
speciesPlatyoides walteri
Platyoides grandidieri
speciesPlatyoides grandidieri
Brown Scorpion Spider
speciesPlatyoides leppanae
Platyoides venturus
speciesPlatyoides venturus
Dark Scorpion Spider
speciesPlatyoides pirie
Platyoides costeri
speciesPlatyoides costeri
Platyoides pusillus
speciesPlatyoides pusillus
Platyoides pictus
speciesPlatyoides pictus
Platyoides mailaka
speciesPlatyoides mailaka
Platyoides ravina
speciesPlatyoides ravina
Platyoides vao
speciesPlatyoides vao
Platyoides velonus
speciesPlatyoides velonus
Platyoides fitzsimonsi
speciesPlatyoides fitzsimonsi
Platyoides alpha
speciesPlatyoides alpha
Blackhead Scorpion Spider
speciesPlatyoides quinquedentatus
Platyoides rossi
speciesPlatyoides rossi
Platyoides robertsi
speciesPlatyoides robertsi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Platyoides in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 419977.