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Genus: Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Pterinochilus raygabrieli Gallon, 2009

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042767

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Described:

Distribution: Ethiopia, Kenya

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m - (Gallon, 2009)

Taxonomic References

Pterinochilus raygabrieli Gallon, 2009: 361, pl. 1-2, f. 1-8 (Dm) Original description

Pterinochilus raygabrieli Bariev & Sherwood, 2025a: 59, f. 4A-H (m)

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

Gallon, R. C. (2009). Two new Pterinochilus species from Kenya (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Harpactirinae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(9): 361-364. doi: 10.13156/100.014.0904 -- 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
2025-03-26	Species distribution update	Bariev & Sherwood, 2025a	Old value