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Genus: Olios Walckenaer, 1837 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Olios stimulator Simon, 1897

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029334

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Described:

Distribution: United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iran?

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (99.9.21.519–520) of Sparassus phipsoni - (Jäger, 2020c)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2m (1663-8695) - (Jäger, 2020c)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 4f (99.9.21.519-520) of Sparassus iranii - (Jäger, 2020c)

Taxonomic References

Sparassus stimulator Simon, 1897g: 258 (Dm) Original description

Sparassus phipsoni Pocock, 1899d: 752 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029289]

Sparassus iranii Pocock, 1901d: 492 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029225]

Olios iranii Gravely, 1931: 242, f. 5C, 6D (f, Dm)

Olios iranii Sethi & Tikader, 1988: 33, f. 146-151 (mf)

Olios phipsoni Sethi & Tikader, 1988: 44, f. 13, 217-218 (m)

Olios stimulator Sethi & Tikader, 1988: 45, f. 219-220 (m)

Olios iranii Moradmand, Mirshamsi & Hula, 2015: 79, f. 3A-D (f)

Olios stimulator Jäger, 2020c: 56, f. 169-184 (mf, S of Olios iranii, O. phipsoni)

Olios stimulator Ullah, Zahid & Butt, 2022: 127, f. 1-12 (mf)

References

Gravely, F. H. (1931). Some Indian spiders of the families Ctenidae, Sparassidae, Selenopidae and Clubionidae. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 33(3): 211-282. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2020c). The spider genus Olios Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Sparassidae) – Part 1: species groups, diagnoses, identification keys, distribution maps and revision of the argelasius-, coenobitus- and auricomis-groups. Zootaxa 4866(1): 1-119. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4866.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Moradmand, M., Mirshamsi, O. & Hula, V. (2015). New records of the huntsman spider genus Olios (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Zoology in the Middle East 61(1): 76-80. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2014.985505 -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1899d). Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 12(4): 744-753. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1901d). Descriptions of some new species of spiders from British India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13: 478-498. -- Show included taxa

Sethi, V. D. & Tikader, B. K. (1988). Studies on some giant crab spiders of the family Heteropodidae from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publications, Occasional Paper 93: 1-94. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897g). Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologique de l'Asie méridionale. V. Arachnides recueillis à Dehra-Dun (N. W. Prov.) et dans le Dekkan par M. A. Smythies. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 10: 252-262. -- Show included taxa

Ullah, I., Zahid, M. & Butt, A. (2022). Re-description of Olios stimulator (Simon, 1897) (Aranei: Sparassidae) from Pakistan. International Journal of Biosciences 20(2): 126-130. doi: 10.12692/ijb/20.2.126-130 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-04-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Ullah, Zahid & Butt, 2022
2020-10-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Jäger, 2020c
2020-10-22	Species distribution update	Jäger, 2020c	Old value
2020-10-22	Species synonymy	Jäger, 2020c		Olios iranii synonymized with Olios stimulator
2020-10-22	Species synonymy	Jäger, 2020c		Olios phipsoni synonymized with Olios stimulator