Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Pterinochilus

Pterinochilus chordatus (Gerstaecker, 1873)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-06-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038311]
  • Distribution: East Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany; type material of Pterinochilus carnivorus Strand, 1917 destroyed (Jäger, 1998b)
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; f of Pterinochilus raptor Strand, 1906
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; m of Pterinochilus widenmanni Strand, 1906
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Harpactira chordata Gerstäcker, 1873, (2350)
Taxonomic references
Harpactira chordata Gerstaecker, 1873: 487 (Dm).
Pterinochilus raptor Strand, 1906b: 606 (Df).
Pterinochilus widenmanni Strand, 1906h: 17 (Dm).
Pterinochilus raptor Strand, 1908l: 13 (Dm).
Pterinochilus affinis Tullgren, 1910: 89 (Df).
Pterinochilus sjöstedti Tullgren, 1910: 90 (Df).
Pterinochilus carnivorus Strand, 1917a: 166 (Df).
Pterinochilus brunellii Caporiacco, 1940c: 777 (Df).
Coelogenium raveni Smith, 1990c: 77, f. 377-385 (Dm).
Pterinochilus raveni Gallon, 2001: 19 (Tm from Coelogenium=Ceratogyrus).
Pterinochilus chordatus Gallon, 2002: 206, f. 4-13 (removed m from synonym of P. constrictus, Sf).
Pterinochilus chordatus Schmidt, 2003l: 227, f. 718-719 (mf).
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1940c). Aracnidi raccolte nella Reg. dei Laghi Etiopici della Fossa Galla. Atti della Reale Accademia d'Italia 11: 767-873. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gallon, R. C. (2001). Revision of the Ceratogyrus spp. formerly included in Coelogenium (Araneae: Theraphosidae, Harpactirinae). Mygalomorph 2: 1-20. download pdf -- 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: 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

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. (1906h). Tropisch-afrikanische Spinnen des Kgl. Naturalienkabinetts in Stuttgart. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 62: 13-103. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908l). Verzeichnis der von Oscar Neumann in Süd-Aethiopien gesammelten Spinnen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 74(I,1): 13-66. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1917a). Zur Kenntnis afrikanischer Arten der Aviculariidengattungen Idiops Perty, Harpactira Auss. und Pterinochilus Poc. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 70: 162-171. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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