Taxon details


Pterinochilus murinus Pocock, 1897

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002389]
  • Distribution: Angola, Central, East, Southern Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; m of Pterinochilus mamillatus Strand, 1906
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Pterinochilus murinus Pocock, 1897, 3 f, exuviae (40486-84)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Harpactira elevata Karsch, 1878, (2841, 2874)
Taxonomic references
Harpactira elevata Karsch, 1878a: 314 (Dmf; N.B.: removed from synonymy of P. constrictus by Gallon, 2002: 211, suppressed for lack of usage).
Pterinochilus murinus Pocock, 1897b: 753, pl. 43, f. 4 (Df).
Pterinochilus mamillatus Strand, 1906h: 20 (Dm).
Pterinochilus hindei Hirst, 1907b: 33, f. 1 (Dm).
Pterinochilus murinus Hirst, 1907b: 34 (Dm).
Pterinochilus vosseleri Strand, 1907l: 73 (f, provisional name only).
Pterinochilus hindei Berland, 1917: 468 (Df).
Pterinochilus murinus Roewer, 1953b: 74, f. 30-31 (m).
Pterinochilus hindei Smith, 1986b: 134, f. 77h (m).
Pterinochilus hindei Smith, 1987d: 134, f. 77h (m).
Pterinochilus murinus Smith, 1988a: 5, f. 1-10 (m).
Pterinochilus murinus Hancock & Hancock, 1989: 34, f. 29 (f).
Pterinochilus hindei Smith, 1990c: 95, f. 503a-512 (mf).
Pterinochilus murinus Smith, 1990c: 98, f. 535-551 (mf).
Pterinochilus murinus Charpentier, 1993: 13, unnumbered f. (mf).
Pterinochilus murinus Schmidt, 1993d: 120, f. 375-377 (mf).
Pterinochilus hindei Peters, 1998: 92, f. 240, 242 (mf).
Pterinochilus murinus Peters, 1998: 96, f. 256-258 (mf).
Pterinochilus mamillatus Schmidt, Peters & Samm, 2000: 8, f. 1-6 (m, Df).
Pterinochilus hindei Peters, 2000b: 98, f. 281-283 (mf).
Pterinochilus mamillatus Peters, 2000b: 99, f. 286-287 (mf).
Pterinochilus murinus Peters, 2000b: 101, f. 297-299 (mf).
Pterinochilus murinus Gallon, 2002: 211, f. 26-34 (mf, S).
Pterinochilus leetzi Schmidt, 2002d: 3, f. 1-2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037517].
Pterinochilus leetzi Schmidt, 2002g: 1, f. 1-2 (f).
Pterinochilus leetzi Schmidt, 2003l: 228, f. 720 (f).
Pterinochilus mamillatus Schmidt, 2003l: 228, f. 723-725 (mf).
Pterinochilus murinus Schmidt, 2003l: 228, f. 726-727; 257, f. 19 (mf).
Pterinochilus leetzi Peters, 2005b: 100, f. 318-321 (f).
Pterinochilus murinus Gallon, 2008: , pl. 2, f. 16-18 (f, S).
References

Berland, L. (1917). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'aviculariides africaines (Araneae: Aviculariidae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 23: 466-481. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Charpentier, P. (1993). Pterinochilus murinus: morphology - biology - behaviour. Exothermae 1(2): 1-72. 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

Gallon, R. C. (2008). On some poorly known African Harpactirinae, with notes on Avicuscodra arabica Strand, 1908 and Scodra pachypoda Strand, 1908 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(5): 232-246. doi:10.13156/arac.2008.14.5.232 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hancock, K. & Hancock, J. (1989). Sex determination of immature theraphosid spiders from their cast skins. Published by the authors, Southminster, England, 61 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hirst, A. S. (1907b). Descriptions of new species of African spiders and Solifugae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 20(115): 33-39. doi:10.1080/00222930709487293 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1878a). Übersicht der von Peters in Mossambique gesammelten Arachniden. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 314-338. 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. (2000b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 2. Published by the author, 162 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2005b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 3. Published by the author, 130 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1897b). On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65(3): 724-774, pl. 46-48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1953b). Araneae-Orthognatha (Arachnoidae). Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 22: 1-80. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G., Peters, H.-J. & Samm, R. (2000). Das unbeschriebene Weibchen von Pterinochilus mamillatus Strand, 1906 sowie die Redescription das Männchens dieser Art (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Harpactirinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 8(11/12): 8-17. (reprinted in Tarantulas of the World 51: 4-11) download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2002d). Eine neue Pterinochilus-Art aus Sambia (Theraphosidae: Harpactirinae). Tarantulas of the World 71: 3-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2002g). Eine neue Pterinochilus-Art aus Sambia (Theraphosidae: Harpactirinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 10(4): 1-6. 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. (1986b). The tarantula: classification and identification guide. Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 179 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Smith, A. M. (1988a). Species file: Pterinochilus murinus Pocock 1897. British Tarantula Society Journal 3(4): 4-10. [reprinted in Spider Club News 3(3): 10-14] 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. (1907l). Aviculariidae und Atypidae des Kgl. Naturalienkabinetts in Stuttgart. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 63: 1-100. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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