Pterinochilus

Taxobox
name = Pterinochilus

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image_caption = A "Pterinochilus murinus" tarantula
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Mygalomorphae
familia = Theraphosidae
subfamilia = Harpactirinae
genus = Pterinochilus
genus_authority = Pocock, 1897
diversity_link = List of Theraphosidae species#Pterinochilus
diversity = 7 species
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see article

"Pterinochilus" is a genus of baboon spiders, first described in 1897 by British zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock. The typical species described is "P. vorax".

This genus contains the following species:

* "Pterinochilus alluaudi" Berland, 1914 (Kenya)
* "Pterinochilus chordatus" (Gerstäcker, 1873) (East Africa)
* "Pterinochilus leetzi" Schmidt, 2002 (Zambia)
* "Pterinochilus lugardi" Pocock, 1900 (Southern, East Africa)
* "Pterinochilus murinus" Pocock, 1897 (Angola, Central, East, Southern Africa)
* "Pterinochilus simoni" Berland, 1917 (Angola, Congo)
* "Pterinochilus vorax" Pocock, 1897 (Angola, Central, East Africa)