Idiothele nigrofulva (Pocock, 1898)

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m 1f (98.5.7.24) - (Gallon, 2010a)
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium j (116016) of Harpactirella leleupi - (Gallon, 2004b)
Taxonomic References
Pterinochilus nigrofulvus Pocock, 1898a: 317 (Dmf) Original description
Pterinochilus crassispina Purcell, 1902a: 335 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002383]
Idiothele nigrofulvus Hewitt, 1919b: 98, f. 11, 12a, pl. 2, f. 6 (mf)
Harpactirella leleupi Benoit, 1965c: 298, f. 1 (Df; j per Gallon, 2004b: 95) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002077]
Pterinochilus crassispana Smith, 1989a: 13, unnumbered f. (f)
Pterinochilus crassispina Smith, 1990c: 94, f. 491-503 (mf)
Pterinochilus nigrofulvus Smith, 1990c: 100, f. 554-566 (m)
Pterinochilus crassispina Peters, 1998: 90, f. 234-236 (mf)
Pterinochilus nigrofulvus Peters, 1998: 98, f. 267 (m)
Idiothele nigrofulva Gallon, 2002: 223, f. 75-88 (mf, T from Pterinochilus, S of Pterinochilus crassispina)
Idiothele nigrofulva Schmidt, 2003l: 227, f. 713-715 (mf)
Idiothele nigrofulva Gallon, 2004b: 95, f. 1-3 (S of Harpactirella leleupi)
Idiothele nigrofulva Gallon, 2010a: 41, pl. 19A, 21-22, f. 34-43 (mf)
Idiothele nigrofulva Sherwood, Logunov & Gabriel, 2022: 213, f. 8-12 (m)
Idiothele nigrofulva Bariev & Sherwood, 2025a: 59, f. 2 (f)
References

Bariev, T. B. & Sherwood, D. (2025a). New data on some African tarantulas including bulb morphology in Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 34(1): 58-63. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.1.05 -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1965c). Etudes sur les Barychelidae du Centre Africain (Araneae - Orthognatha) II. - Leptopelmatinae nouveaux. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 71(3-4): 297-303. -- Show included taxa

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(5): 201-232. -- Show included taxa

Gallon, R. C. (2004b). Harpactirella leleupi Benoit, 1965 is a junior synonym of Idiothele nigrofulva (Pocock, 1898) (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Harpactirinae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(3): 95-96. -- Show included taxa

Gallon, R. C. (2010a). On some southern African Harpactirinae, with notes on the eumenophorines Pelinobius muticus Karsch, 1885 and Monocentropella Strand, 1907 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15(2): 29-48. doi: 10.13156/arac.2010.15.2.29 -- Show included taxa

Hewitt, J. (1919b). Descriptions of new South African Araneae and Solifugae. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 6: 63-111. -- Show included taxa

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

Pocock, R. I. (1898a). On the Arachnida taken in the Transvaal and in Nyasaland by Mr W. L. Distant and Dr Percy Rendall. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 1(4): 308-321. doi: 10.1080/00222939808677978 -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1902a). On the South African Theraphosidae or "Baviaan" spiders, in the collection of the South African Museum. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 11: 319-347. -- Show included taxa

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

Sherwood, D., Logunov, D. V. & Gabriel, R. (2022). An annotated catalogue of the theraphosid spiders held in the collections of the Manchester Museum (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 209-219. doi: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.209 -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1989a). How to use the spermathecae as a taxonomic tool in theraphosid identification. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 4(3): 10-14. [[reprinted in Spider Club News 5(1): 4-7]] -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1990c). Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. Fitzgerald Publishing London, 142 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-03-26 New taxonomic reference entry Bariev & Sherwood, 2025a
2022-06-15 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, Logunov & Gabriel, 2022

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