Orphnaecus kwebaburdeos
Philippines
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IUCN Status


Type Locality : PHILIPPINES, Polillo Island, Burdeos, Puting Bato Cave 3 & 4
Etymology : The specific epithet kwebaburdeos is derived from the combination of habitat (cave = kweba in Tagalog) + type-locality (Burdeos)
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A new tarantula species of the genus Phlogiellus Pocock, 1897,
P. kwebaburdeos n. sp. is described and illustrated based on a series of
specimens collected inside the Puting Bato Cave 3-4 in Burdeos, Polilio
Island, Quezon Province, Philippines. P. kwebaburdeos Barrion-Dupo, Barrion
and Rasalan n. sp., a cave-dwelling mygalomorph spider represents the fifth
and sixteenth species of Phlogiellus reported in the Philippines and in Southand
Southeast Asia, respectively.
Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology Vol. VIII