Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Eucratoscelus

Eucratoscelus constrictus (Gerstaecker, 1873)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-06-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002382]
  • Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Harpactira constricta Gerstäcker, 1873, (2351)
Taxonomic references
Harpactira constricta Gerstaecker, 1873: 486 (Df).
Eucratoscelus longiceps Pocock, 1898g: 500 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002000].
Pterinochilus spinifer Pocock, 1898g: 502, pl. 41, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002397].
Pterinochilus constrictus Strand, 1907f: 236.
Eucratoscelus longiceps Smith, 1990c: 78, f. 386-395 (f).
Pterinochilus spinifer Smith, 1990c: 102, f. 581-590 (m).
Eucratoscelus longiceps Peters, 1998: 40, f. 86-87 (f).
Eucratoscelus longiceps Peters, 2000a: 123, f. 380 (f).
Pterinochilus spinifer Peters, 2000b: 103, f. 305-306 (m).
Eucratoscelus constrictus Gallon, 2002: 227, f. 102-107 (mf, T from Pterinochilus, S of Pterinochilus longiceps and P. spinifer).
Eucratoscelus constrictus Schmidt, 2003l: 224, f. 698-700 (mf).
References

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: 201-232. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gerstaecker, A. (1873). Arachnoidea. In: Die Gliederthier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. Nach dem von Dr. O. Kersten während der v. d. Decken'schen Ost-Afrikanischen Expedition im Jahre 1862 und von C. Cooke auf der Insel Sansibar im Jahre 1864 gesammelten Material. C. F. Winter, Leipzig, pp. 461-503, pl. 18 (Araneae: pp. 473-503). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10149 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Peters, H.-J. (2000a). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 1. Published by the author, 148 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2000b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 2. Published by the author, 162 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1898g). On the scorpions, spiders and solpugas collected by Mr. C. Steuart Betton in British East Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 66(3): 497-524, pl. 41-42. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03172.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Smith, A. M. (1990c). Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. Fitzgerald Publishing, London, pp. 1-142. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907f). Afrikanische und südamerikanische Aviculariiden, hauptsächlich aus dem naturhistorischen Museum zu Lübeck. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 79: 170-266. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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