Phlogiodes validus Pocock, 1899

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002044

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Described:

Distribution: India

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  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f of Phlogiodes robustus - (Mirza, 2024)
Taxonomic References
Phlogiodes validus Pocock, 1899d: 748 (Dm) Original description
Phlogiodes robustus Pocock, 1899d: 748 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002041]
Phlogiodes robustus Pocock, 1900a: 180, f. 57 (f)
Haploclastus validus Siliwal & Raven, 2010: 72 (S of Haploclastus robustus)
Haploclastus validus Mirza, Sanap & Siliwal, 2011: 2110, image 1-4, f. 1-11 (mf)
Phlogiodes validus Mirza & Sanap, 2013: 18, f. 1a-d (f, T from Haploclastus)
Haploclastus validus Mirza, 2024: 223, f. 31A-C, 32A-D (f)
References

Mirza, Z. A., Sanap, R. V. & Siliwal, M. (2011). Robust trapdoor tarantula Haploclastus validus Pocock, 1899: notes on taxonomy, distribution and natural history (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Thrigmopoeinae). Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(10): 2109-2119. doi: 10.11609/JoTT.o2627.2109-19 -- Show included taxa

Mirza, Z. A. & Sanap, R. (2013). Revalidation of the tarantula genus Phlogiodes Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Thrigmopoeinae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 2(2): 17-21. -- Show included taxa

Mirza, Z. A. (2024). Systematics of the Western Ghats endemic tarantula subfamily Thrigmopoeinae with the description of a new genus and four new species. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 67(2): 183-234. doi: 10.3897/travaux.67.e112517 -- 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. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.48423 -- Show included taxa

Siliwal, M. & Raven, R. J. (2010). Taxonomic change of two species in the genus Haploclastus Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 46: 71-75. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.46.347 -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-01-01 New taxonomic reference entry Mirza, 2024

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