page_title: Pandercetes
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Pandercetes / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Moss like spider. Pandercetes sp. (near celatus per Fauna of British India) Wynaad India.
context_page_description: Pandercetes is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in his 1875 treatise on Australian spiders. They are mainly distributed in tropical Asia and Australia, and are known for their cryptic coloration that matches local moss and lichen. Their legs have lateral hairs, giving them a feathery appearance, further masking their outline against tree trunks. Their head is somewhat elevated and the carapace has the thoracic region low and flat.
  The genus is characterized by the internal anatomy of the reproductive structures. Males have irregular coils at the terminal end, while females have screw like copulatory ducts.
context_section_description: As of October 2019 it contains sixteen species and one subspecies, found in tropical forests in Asia, extending east to Australia:
  Pandercetes celatus Pocock, 1899 – India
  Pandercetes celebensis Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  Pandercetes c. vulcanicola Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  Pandercetes decipiens Pocock, 1899 – India, Sri Lanka
  Pandercetes gracilis L. Koch, 1875 (type) – Indonesia (Moluccas, Sulawesi), New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
  Pandercetes isopus Thorell, 1881 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
  Pandercetes longipes Thorell, 1881 – Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.)
  Pandercetes macilentus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
  Pandercetes malleator Thorell, 1890 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Aru Is.)
  Pandercetes manoius Roewer, 1938 – New Guinea
  Pandercetes niger Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  Pandercetes nigrogularis (Simon, 1897) – Indonesia (Java)
  Pandercetes ochreus Hogg, 1922 – Vietnam
  Pandercetes palliventris Strand, 1911 – New Guinea
  Pandercetes peronianus (Walckenaer, 1837) – New Zealand
  Pandercetes plumipes (Doleschall, 1859) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Ambon), New Guinea
  Pandercetes plumosus Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
caption: Showing moss-like appearance and the head elevated above the plane of the cephalothorax
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