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Genus: Palystes L. Koch, 1875 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Palystes hoehneli Simon, 1890

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029381

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (10632) - (Croeser, 1996)
Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 1f (231) of Palystes bornemiszai - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944 m of Palystes rubrioculatus - (Croeser, 1996)
Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 7m 3f 5jf (ARTO-0027827) of Palystes kibonotensis - (Croeser, 1996)
Paralectotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 1f of Palystes kibonotensis - (Croeser, 1996)
Lectotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden m of Palystes kibonotensis - (Croeser, 1996)
Paralectotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden Palystes kibonotensis Lessert, 1921; 7m, 4f, 5j -
Syntype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary 3m 1f (277; 2m 1f not found) of Palystes bornemiszai - (Croeser, 1996)

Taxonomic References

Palystes höhneli Simon, 1890b: 129 (Df) Original description

Palystes rubrioculatus Strand, 1906b: 689 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063307]

Palystes höhneli Strand, 1907p: 91 (S? of Palystes rubrioculatus)

Palystes hoehneli Järvi, 1912: 69, f. 56, pl. 6, f. 5-8 (f)

Palystes hoehneli Järvi, 1914: 186

Palystes kibonotensis Lessert, 1921: 393, f. 14-15, 17-18 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063306]

Palystes bornemiszai Caporiacco, 1947c: 205, f. 49 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063305]

Palystes hoehneli Croeser, 1996: 70, f. 89-96 (mf, S of of Palystes bornemiszai, P. kibonotensis and rubrioculatus)

Palystes hoehneli Jäger & Kunz, 2005: 167, f. 149-156 (mf)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. -- Show included taxa

Croeser, P. M. C. (1996). A revision of the African huntsman spider genus Palystes L. Koch 1875 (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 37: 1-122. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. & Kunz, D. (2005). An illustrated key to genera of African huntsman spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 85(2): 163-213. -- 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

Lessert, R. de (1921). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 4. Clubionidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 28: 381-442. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1890b). Etudes arachnologiques. 22e Mémoire. XXXV. Etude sur les arachnides recueillis par M. L. von Höhnel, officier de la marine autrichienne, pendant l'expedition de M. le comte Teleki dans l'Afrique orientale équatoriale en 1887-1888. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 10: 125-130. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907p). Über einige tropisch-afrikanische Spinnen. Societas Entomologica, Organ für den Internationalen Entomologen-Verein 22: 65-92. -- Show included taxa

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