Abstract
As all other Sparassidae, spiders of the genus Polybetes Simon are wandering, laterigrade, have a bi or trilobate membrane at the dorsal distal end of leg metatarsi, two tarsal claws and scopulate tarsi and metatarsi. They also exhibit the anterior eye row slightly recurved and only two promarginal teeth on the chelicerae. The genus currently includes thirteen species distributed througho…