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Genus: Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Chaetopelma olivaceum C. L. Koch, 1841

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001882

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Described:

Distribution: Cyprus, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, Middle East

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: National Museum – Natural History Museum, Praha (NMP), Czech Republic 1f (P6p-117/2004) of Chaetopelma anatolicum - (Růžička et al., 2005)

Taxonomic References

Mygale olivacea C. L. Koch, 1841a: vol. 9: 34, pl. 298, f. 712 (Df) Original description

Chaetopelma olivaceum Simon, 1892a: 140, f. 124

Ischnocolus gracilis Ausserer, 1871a: 187 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001880]

Chaetopelma olivaceum Strand, 1907l: 21 (Dmf)

Ischnocolus syriacus Ausserer, 1871a: 189 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002172]

Cratorrhagus tetramerus Reimoser, 1919: 8

Chaetopelma aegyptiaca Ausserer, 1871a: 191 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057174]

Chaetopelma aegyptiaca Gerhardt, 1921: 245, pl. 1, f. 4 (m)

Avicularia tetramera Simon, 1873a: 17 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001932]

Chaetopelma shabati Hassan, 1950: 163, f. 1-10 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001883]

Avicularia striatocauda Simon, 1873a: 19 (Dmf)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Denis, 1955a: 438, f. I.A-C (m)

Nemesia concolor Simon, 1873a: 31 (f, misidentified)

Cratorrhagus tetrameris Bonnet, 1956: 1247

Ischnocolus striatocauda Ausserer, 1875: 173

Chaetopelma olivaceum Schmidt, 1986: 43, f. 25 (m)

Cratorrhagus tetramera Simon, 1892a: 137

Ischnocolus gracilis Smith, 1986b: 88, f. 58h (m)

Ischnocolus gracilis Smith, 1987d: 88, f. 58h (m)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Smith, 1989a: 13, unnumbered f. (f)

Chaetopelma adenense Smith, 1990c: 109, f. 601-616 (m, misidentified)

Chaetopelma aegyptiacum Smith, 1990c: 110, f. 617-631 (m)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Smith, 1990c: 113, f. 652-668 (mf)

Chaetopelma shabati Smith, 1990c: 114, f. 669-685 (mf)

Ischnocolus gracilis Smith, 1990c: 127, f. 787-802 (Df)

Ischnocolus jerusalemensis Smith, 1990c: 130, f. 830-846 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002165]

Chaetopelma aegyptiacum Smith, 1991c: 74, f. 2-16 (m)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Smith, 1991c: 75, f. 17-33 (mf)

Chaetopelma shabati Smith, 1991c: 75, f. 34-50 (mf)

Chaetopelma aegyptiacum Schmidt, 1993d: 56, f. 17 (m)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Schmidt, 1993d: 56, f. 18-19 (mf)

Ischnocolus gracilis Schmidt, 1993d: 57, f. 30 (f)

Chaetopelma anatolicum Schmidt & Smith, 1995: 1, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001877]

Chaetopelma gracile Vollmer, 1997: 5, f. 1-2 (mf, T from Ischnocolus, S of Chaetopelma aegyptiacum)

Chaetopelma gracile Peters, 1998: 20, f. 48, 50 (mf)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Peters, 1998: 31, f. 62, 64 (mf)

Chaetopelma shabati Peters, 1998: 31, f. 67-68 (mf)

Chaetopelma gracile Peters, 2000a: 86, f. 287 (f)

Chaetopelma gracile Schmidt, 2003l: 107, f. 29-31 (mf)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Schmidt, 2003l: 107, f. 32-33 (mf)

Chaetopelma gracile Schmidt, 2005b: 13, 10 f. (mf, S of Chaetopelma anatolicum)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Guadanucci & Gallon, 2008: 36, f. 1-10 (mf, S of Chaetopelma gracile, C. shabati, C. tetramerum, Ischnocolus jerusalemensis and I. syriacus)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Le Peru, 2011: 105, f. 100 (mf)

Chaetopelma olivaceum Chatzaki & Komnenov, 2019: 275, f. 3J-L, 4A, 6B-C (mf)

References

Ausserer, A. (1871a). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 117-224, pl. 1. [[incl. unpubl. manuscript by Doleschall]] -- Show included taxa

Ausserer, A. (1875). Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 25: 125-206, pl. 5-7. -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. -- Show included taxa

Chatzaki, M. & Komnenov, M. (2019). Description of a new Chaetopelma (Araneae, Theraphosidae) species from Crete and a re-description of Macrothele cretica Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae, Macrothelidae). Zootaxa 4544(2): 269-284. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.2.7 -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1955a). Araignées. In: Mission Henri Coiffait au Liban (1951). Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 91(Biospeol. 75), 437-454. -- Show included taxa

Gerhardt, U. (1921). Vergleichende Studien über die Morphologie des männlichen Tasters und die Biologie der Kopulation der Spinnen. Versuch einer zusammenfassenden Darstellung auf Grund eigener Beobachtungen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87A(4): 78-247, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Guadanucci, J. P. L. & Gallon, R. C. (2008). A revision of the spider genera Chaetopelma Ausserer 1871 and Nesiergus Simon 1903 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae). Zootaxa 1753: 34-48. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1753.1.2 -- Show included taxa

Hassan, A. I. (1950). The Theraphosidae in Egypt, with a description of Chaetopelma shabati spec. nov. {Araneae}. Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1^er d'Entomologie 34: 159-171. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1841a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Achter Band, pp. 41-131, pl. 265-288 (f. 621-694); Neunter Band, pp. 1-56, pl. 289-306 (f. 695-726). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. -- 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

Reimoser, E. (1919). Katalog der echten Spinnen (Araneae) des Paläarktischen Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 10(2): 1-280. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1986). Vogelspinnen: Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht. Albrecht Philler, Minden, 126 pp. -- 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. & Smith, A. (1995). Chaetopelma anatolicum sp. n., (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae), eine Vogelspinne aus der Türkei. Arachnologisches Magazin 3(7): 1-6. -- Show included taxa

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

Schmidt, G. (2005b). Chaetopelma anatolicum Schmidt & Smith, 1995 ist ein Synonym von Chaetopelma gracile (Ausserer, 1871) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae). Tarantulas of the World 103: 13-17. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1873a). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 5(8): 1-174, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1892a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-256. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1986b). The tarantula: classification and identification guide. Fitzgerald Publishing London, 179 pp. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1987d). The tarantula: classification and identification guide (second ed.). Fitzgerald Publishing London, 179 pp. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1989a). How to use the spermathecae as a taxonomic tool in theraphosid identification. British Tarantula Society Journal 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, pp. 1-142. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1991c). Tarantulas of Egypt (Araneida: Theraphosidae). Serket 2(3): 70-80. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907l). Aviculariidae und Atypidae des Kgl. Naturalienkabinetts in Stuttgart. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 63: 1-100. -- Show included taxa

Vollmer, P. (1997). Chaetopelma karlamani sp. n., (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae) eine Vogelspinne aus Nord-Zypern. Tarantulas of the World 1997(Dec. 16): 4-18. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2021-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Gerhardt, 1921
2021-01-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Smith, 1991c
2021-01-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Smith, 1991c
2021-01-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Smith, 1991c
2019-01-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Chatzaki & Komnenov, 2019