Taxon details
Omothymus violaceopes (Abraham, 1924)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2019-08-17
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002179]
- Distribution: Malaysia, Singapore
- 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)
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).
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
Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2019-08-17 | New taxonomic reference entry | Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c | n/a |
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 | n/a |