Platyoides

Taxobox
name = "Platyoides"

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image_width = 210px
image_caption = "Platyoides" sp.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
superfamilia = Gnaphosoidea
familia = Trochanteriidae
genus = "Platyoides"
genus_authority = O. P.-Cambridge, 1890
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Platyoides" (scorpion spiders) 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.

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