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Genus: Eucratoscelus Pocock, 1898 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Eucratoscelus pachypus Schmidt & von Wirth, 1990

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania

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Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Eucratoscelus pachypus Schmidt & von Wirth, 1990, 1 f (37098-84) -

Taxonomic References

Eucratoscelus pachypus Schmidt & von Wirth, 1990: 11, f. 1-2 (Df) Original description

Eucratoscelus pachypus Schmidt, 1993d: 118, f. 367 (f)

Eucratoscelus pachypus Peters, 1998: 43, f. 97 (f)

Eucratoscelus pachypus Peters, 2000a: 124, f. 383 (f)

Eucratoscelus pachypus Gallon, 2002: 229, f. 108-115 (f, Dm)

Eucratoscelus pachypus Schmidt, 2003l: 224, f. 701 (f)

References

Gallon, R. C. (2002). Revision of the African genera Pterinochilus and Eucratoscelus (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Harpactirinae) with description of two new genera. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 201-232. -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (1998). Tarantulas of the world: Afrika's Vogelspinnen. Published by the author, 122 pp. -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2000a). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 1. Published by the author, 148 pp. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. & Wirth, V. von (1990). Eine neue Vogelspinnenart aus Tansania Eucratoscelus pachypus sp. n. (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Harpactirinae). Arachnologischer Anzeiger 6: 11-14. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch Hannover, 151 pp. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa

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Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-07-01	Species distribution update		Old value