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Genus: Atypus Latreille, 1804 | Family: Atypidae Thorell, 1870

Atypus piceus Sulzer, 1776

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Described:

Distribution: Europe (France to Russia), Iran

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany f (12938-87) of Proatypus thaleri - (Braun, 1963b)
Lectotype: f (the lost specimen, used for the illustration in pl. 30, f. 2 in Sulzer, 1776 and Roemer, 1789, is designated as lectotype of Aranea picea Sulzer, 1776, Aranea subterranea Roemer, 1789, Oletera atypus Walckenaer, 1805 and Atypus sulzeri Latreille, 1806, according to ICZN article 74.4) - (Breitling, 2022c)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f (12939-87) of Proatypus thaleri - (Braun, 1963b)

Taxonomic References

Aranea picea Sulzer, 1776: 254, pl. 30, f. 2 (Df) Original description

Aranea subterranea Roemer, 1789: 66, pl. 30, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055909]

Oletera atypus Walckenaer, 1805: 7, pl. 1, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055910]

Oletera atypa Walckenaer, 1806: II, 6, (fig.) (Dm)

Atypus sulzeri Latreille, 1806: 85, pl. 5, f. 2 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055911]

Atypus sulzeri Dufour, 1820b: 109, pl. 73, f. 6 (Dm)

Atypus sulzeri Hahn, 1821: 1, pl. 1 (m)

Atypus sulzeri Hahn, 1833a: 117, f. 88 (mf)

Atypus sulzeri C. L. Koch, 1847: 72, f. 1547-1548 (m, Df)

Oletera piceus Lucas, 1859b: 169

Atypus sulzeri Blackwall, 1861a: 14, pl. 1, f. 1 (mf)

Atypus piceus Simon, 1873b: 112, pl. 4, f. 6-9 (mf, S of Aranea subterranea and Atypus sulzeri)

Oletera picea Bertkau, 1875: 251, f. 14 (f)

Atypus beckii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875e: 242, pl. 8, f. 1 (Dmf; N.B.: presumably mislabeled as not known from Britain, see Bristowe, 1933d: 292) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055908]

Atypus piceus Fickert, 1877: 99 (m)

Atypus piceus Simon, 1892a: 199, f. 134-135, 140, 142 (m)

Atypus piceus Becker, 1896: 319, pl. 18, f. 1 (mf)

Atypus beckii Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 280, pl. 10, f. 74 (mf)

Atypus piceus Bösenberg, 1902: 220, pl. 20, f. 312 (mf)

Atypus piceus Lessert, 1910b: 11, f. 20 (mf)

Atypus piceus Simon, 1914: 22, 24, f. 46-47 (mf, S of Atypus becki)

Atypus piceus Bristowe, 1933d: 292, f. 1, 3, 5, 7 (mf)

Atypus piceus Ehlers, 1937: 257, f. 1b-8b (mf)

Atypus piceus Gerhardt, 1944: 18, f. 12 (f)

Atypus piceus Miller, 1947: 52, pl. I, f. 1a, 2-3 (f)

Atypus piceus Wiehle, 1953: 5, f. 10-13 (mf)

Atypus piceus Schenkel, 1953b: 8, f. 4b (m)

Atypus piceus Bacescu, 1955: 1127, f. 2 (m)

Atypus piceus Cohen, 1962: 243, f. 6.3 (f)

Proatypus thaleri Braun, 1963b: 111, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055901]

Atypus piceus von Broen, 1965b: 409, f. 1-3 (f)

Proatypus thaleri Loksa, 1969: 17, f. 11B (f)

Atypus piceus Loksa, 1969: 18, f. 10G, 11C (mf)

Atypus piceus Miller, 1971: 54, pl. II, f. 3 (f)

Atypus piceus Kraus & Baur, 1974: 104, f. 9, 11, 14-16, 20-21, 26-27, 30, 43-44 (mf, S of Proatypus thaleri)

Atypus piceus Gertsch & Platnick, 1979: 5, f. 15-16

Atypus piceus Haupt, 1983: 276, f. 1d (m)

Atypus piceus Schwendinger, 1989a: 91, f. 13-14 (m)

Atypus piceus Schwendinger, 1990b: 358, f. 13, 15, 26-29, 31, 33-36 (mf)

Atypus piceus Wunderlich, 1991: 8, f. 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11 (mf)

Atypus piceus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 36, f. 74 (f)

Atypus piceus Roberts, 1995: 77, f. (m)

Atypus piceus Roberts, 1998: 79, f. (m)

Atypus piceus Hendrickx et al., 2002: 129, f. 1-3 (m)

Atypus piceus Drolshagen, 2007: 13, f. 1-5 (mf)

Atypus piceus Henrard, 2010a: 114, f. 1, 4a-b, 6a-b (m)

Atypus piceus Le Peru, 2011: 61, f. 19 (f)

Atypus piceus Bali et al., 2020: 62, f. 2 (f)

Atypus piceus Breitling, 2022c: 15 (S of Oletera atypus (removed from S of A. affinis, contra Simon, 1914: 24), S of Aranea subterranea and Atypus sulzeri confirmed)

References

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Haupt, J. (1983). Vergleichende Morphologie der Genitalorgane und Phylogenie der liphistiomorphen Webspinnen (Araneae: Mesothelae). I. Revision der bisher bekannten Arten. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 21(4): 275-293. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1983.tb00296.x -- Show included taxa

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Hendrickx, F., De Bakker, D., Goffin, A. & Bosmans, R. (2002). Atypus piceus (Sulzer, 1776): a new and second mygalomorph spider for Belgium. Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 138: 129-132. -- Show included taxa

Henrard, A. (2010a). Deuxième localité connue pour Atypus piceus Sulzer, 1776 (Araneae; Atypidae), une mygale typiquement thermophile. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 25: 114-119. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1847). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 89-210, pl. 481-504 (f. 1343-1412); Fünfzehnter Band, pp. 1-136, pl. 505-540 (f. 1413-1504); Sechszehnter und letzter Band, pp. 1-80, pl. 541-563 (f. 1505-1550), Index 64 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

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Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1910b). Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 635 pp. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-10-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Breitling, 2022c
2022-10-06	Species synonymy	Breitling, 2022c		Atypus atypus synonymized with Atypus piceus
2022-10-06	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Atypus affinis Eichwald, 1830
2022-10-06	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2022-10-06	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Breitling, 2022c	Old value
2021-05-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Bertkau, 1875
2020-06-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Bali et al., 2020
2017-11-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Gerhardt, 1944
2016-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Drolshagen, 2007