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Genus: Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Pterinochilus chordatus (Gerstaecker, 1873)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038311

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Described:

Distribution: South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944 m of Pterinochilus widenmanni Strand, 1906 -
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: 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) Original description

Harpactira chordata Pavesi, 1881: 548 (S of Harpactira elevata, rejected by Gallon, 2002: 211, see Pterinochilus murinus)

Pterinochilus raptor Strand, 1906b: 606 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002393]

Pterinochilus widenmanni Strand, 1906h: 17 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002399]

Pterinochilus raptor Strand, 1908l: 13 (Dm)

Pterinochilus affinis Tullgren, 1910: 89 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002377]

Pterinochilus sjöstedti Tullgren, 1910: 90 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002396]

Pterinochilus carnivorus Strand, 1917a: 166 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002381]

Pterinochilus brunellii Caporiacco, 1940c: 777 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002380]

Coelogenium raveni Smith, 1990c: 77, f. 377-385 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001927]

Pterinochilus raveni Gallon, 2001: 19 (T from Coelogenium)

Pterinochilus chordatus Gallon, 2002: 206, f. 4-13 (mf, removed from synonym of Pterinochilus constrictus, rejecting Strand, 1907f: 238, S of P. affinis, P. brunellii, P. carnivorus, P. raptor, P. raveni, P. sjostedti and P. widenmanni)

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. -- Show included taxa

Gallon, R. C. (2001). Revision of the Ceratogyrus spp. formerly included in Coelogenium (Araneae: Theraphosidae, Harpactirinae). Mygalomorph 2: 1-20. -- 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(5): 201-232. -- Show included taxa

Gerstaecker, A. (1873). Arachnoidea. C. F. Winter, Leipzig, pp. 461-503, pl. 18 (Araneae: pp. 473-503). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.10149 -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1881). Studi sugli Aracnidi africani. II. Aracnidi d'Inhambane raccolti da Carlo Fornasini e considerazioni sull'aracnofauna del Mozambico. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 16: 536-560. -- Show included taxa

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

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

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

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

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