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Genus: Barylestis Simon, 1909 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Barylestis variatus Pocock, 1900

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Described:

Distribution: West Africa. Introduced to Northern Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czechia

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK Torania variata Pocock, 1900, (1898.7.6.25-26, 1899.7.16.97-99); 1m, 3f -

Taxonomic References

Torania variata Pocock, 1900g: 874, pl. 58, f. 30 (Dmf) Original description

Torania variata Järvi, 1912: 74, pl. 7, f. 4-5 (f)

Torania variata Järvi, 1914: 192

Torania variata Browning, 1954: 213, f. 1 (f)

Barylestis variatus Jäger, 2002b: 39, f. 28-35 (mf from Torania=Heteropoda)

Barylestis variatus van Helsdingen, 2019: 43, f. 2 (f)

References

Browning, E. (1954). The accidental importation of three species of Torania into Great Britain, with observations on live specimens (Araneae: Sparassidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 124(2): 213-217, 1 pl.. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1954.tb07778.x -- Show included taxa

Helsdingen, P. J. van (2019). Faunistiek en dynamiek in de spinnenwereld [Faunistics and dynamics in the spider world]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 38: 41-43. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2002b). Heteropodinae: transfers and synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae). Acta Arachnologica 51(1): 33-61. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.51.33 -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1912). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. I. Allgemeiner Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 1-131, pl. 1-11. -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1914). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. II. Spezieller Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 118-235. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900g). On the scorpions, pedipalps and spiders from tropical West-Africa, represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 67(4, 1899): 833-885, pl. 55-58. [[published in April 1900, after Duncan, 1937]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2019-03-12	New taxonomic reference entry	van Helsdingen, 2019
2019-03-12	Species distribution update	van Helsdingen, 2019	Old value
2017-01-30	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected