Description

Large size (total length: 25 to 30 mm), reddish brown, slightly darker on the carapace. Legs and pedipalps are extremely long in larger specimens, trochanter has four spines on the inner side face and a well developed tubercle in the center, the first spine of the basitarsus (Bd-1) is longer than the third (Bd-3), the tarsus and postarso are separated by a well development suture.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Arachnida

Order: Amblypygi

Family: Phrynidae

Genus: Paraphrynus

Species: Paraphrynus emaciatus Mullinex, 1975