Taxon details

Family: Sparassidae / Genus: Barylestis

Barylestis variatus (Pocock, 1900)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-11-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029604]
  • Distribution: West Africa. Introduced to Northern Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czechia
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; Torania variata Pocock, 1900, (1898.7.6.25-26, 1899.7.16.97-99); 1m, 3f
Taxonomic references
Torania variata Pocock, 1900g: 874, pl. 58, f. 30 (Dmf).
Torania variata Järvi, 1912: 74, pl. 7, f. 4-5 (f).
Torania variata Järvi, 1914: 192.
Torania variata Browning, 1954: 213, f. 1 (f).
Barylestis variatus Jäger, 2002b: 39, f. 28-35 (mf from Torania=Heteropoda).
Barylestis variatus van Helsdingen, 2019: 43, f. 2 (f).
References

Browning, E. (1954). The accidental importation of three species of Torania into Great Britain, with observations on live specimens (Araneae: Sparassidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 124(2): 213-217, 1 pl.. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1954.tb07778.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Helsdingen, P. J. van (2019). Faunistiek en dynamiek in de spinnenwereld [Faunistics and dynamics in the spider world]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 38: 41-43. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2002b). Heteropodinae: transfers and synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae). Acta Arachnologica 51(1): 33-61. doi:10.2476/asjaa.51.33 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1914). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. II. Spezieller Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 118-235. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1912). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. I. Allgemeiner Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 1-131, pl. 1-11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900g). On the scorpions, pedipalps and spiders from tropical West-Africa, represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 67(4, 1899): 833-885, pl. 55-58. [published in April 1900, after Duncan, 1937] download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-03-12 New taxonomic reference entry van Helsdingen, 2019 n/a
2019-03-12 Species distribution update van Helsdingen, 2019 n/a (Old value)
2017-01-30 Species updated Error corrected (Old value)