World Spider Catalog

Genus: Omothymus Thorell, 1891 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Omothymus violaceopes Abraham, 1924

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002179

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Described:

Distribution: Malaysia, Singapore

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1924.27.19.1.37) - (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c)
Paratype: National University of Singapore, Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Singapore 9f 2j (in part in FMS Museum and in coll. Abraham; m belongs to Omothymus schioedtei) - (Abraham, 1924)

Taxonomic References

Lampropelma violaceopedes Abraham, 1924: 1108, pl. 5, f. 19-22 (Df; m see Omothymus schioedtei; specific epithets cannot be plural) Original description

Lampropelma violaceopedes Smith, 1990a: 14, f. 1-15 (mf)

Lampropelma violaceopes Schmidt, 2003l: 252, f. 826-830 (mf)

Omothymus violaceopes Smith & Jacobi, 2015: 29 (T from Lampropelma; not followed here, because not sufficiently justified)

Omothymus violaceopes Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c: 140, f. 20-21 (m, T from Lampropelma)

References

Abraham, H. C. (1924). Some mygalomorph spiders from the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 94(4): 1091-1124. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1924.tb03332.x -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019c). The revised taxonomic placement of some arboreal Ornithoctoninae Pocock, 1895 with description of a new species of Omothymus Thorell, 1891 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 137-147. doi: 10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.137 -- Show included taxa

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

Smith, A. M. (1990a). A question of colour. British Tarantula Society Journal 5(3): 14-18. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. & Jacobi, M. A. (2015). Revision of the genus Phormingochilus with the description of three new species from Sulawesi and Sarawak and notes on the placement of the genera Cyriopagopus, Lampropelma and Omothymus. British Tarantula Society Journal 30(3): 25-48. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2019-08-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c
2019-08-17	Species transferred to new genus	Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c	Species transferred from Lampropelma to Omothymus
2016-09-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Smith & Jacobi, 2015