Taxon details

Family: Sparassidae / Genus: Olios

Olios auricomis (Simon, 1880)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029136]
  • Distribution: Gambia, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Angola, South Africa
  • External Resources *:
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; f (destroyed 1944) of Olios chiracanthiformis (Renner, 1988b)
  • Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany; m (1603) of Olios isongonis (Jäger, 1998b)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; f (31206) of Olios ituricus (Jäger, 2020c)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (1622-1563) (Jäger, 2020c)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1899.7.1.1) of Sparassus rufilatus (Jäger, 2020c)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (99.7.24.74) of Sparassus schönlandi (Jäger, 2020c)
  • Holotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden; f of Olios pacifer (Jäger, 2020c)
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 2m of Nisueta flavescens (Jäger, 2020c)
Taxonomic references
Midamus auricomis Simon, 1880a: 312 (Dm).
Sparassus schönlandi Pocock, 1900e: 330 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029317].
Sparassus rufilatus Pocock, 1900g: 878, pl. 56, f. 13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029311].
Eusparassus chiracanthiformis Strand, 1906b: 630 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029156].
Olios ituricus Strand, 1913a: 402 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029227].
Olios isongonis Strand, 1915b: 94 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029226].
Olios pacifer Lessert, 1921: 385, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029280].
Nisueta flavescens Caporiacco, 1941b: 124, f. 39 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029106].
Olios chiracanthiformis Caporiacco, 1941b: 123 (T from Eusparassus).
Olios rufilatus Lessert, 1946: 207.
Olios schönlandi Roewer, 1955c: 696.
Olios auricomis Jäger & Kunz, 2005: 168, f. 272-273 (f).
Olios rufilatus Jäger & Kunz, 2005: 168, f. 270-271 (m).
Olios auricomis Jäger, 2020c: 39, f. 105-115 (mf, S of Nisueta flavescens, Olios chiracanthiformis, O. isongonis, O. ituricus, O. pacifer, O. rufilatus, O. schonlandi).
Olios auricomis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b: 14, p. 13: 1 f., p. 14: 5 f. (f).
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. [the page numbers given at the single species partly refer to a differently paginated reprint] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2022b). The Sparassidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 71 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6614498 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. & Kunz, D. (2005). An illustrated key to genera of African huntsman spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 85(2): 163-213. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2020c). The spider genus Olios Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Sparassidae) – Part 1: species groups, diagnoses, identification keys, distribution maps and revision of the argelasius-, coenobitus- and auricomis-groups. Zootaxa 4866(1): 1-119. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4866.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1921). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 4. Clubionidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 28: 381-442. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1946). Araignées du Congo Belge. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 58: 204-225. 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

Pocock, R. I. (1900e). Some new Arachnida from Cape Colony. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 6(33): 316-333. doi:10.1080/00222930008678382 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1880a). Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 34(2/3/4): 223-351. [issue 3 and 4 were published in 1881, but a complete seperate extract was available in 1880, see the last page of the pdf] 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. (1915b). Neue oder wenig bekannte äthiopische Spinnen aus dem naturhistorischen Museum in Wiesbaden. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 68: 87-100. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1913a). Arachnida. I. In: Schubotz, H. (ed.) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig. 4(Zool. 2), 325-474. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7048 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-05 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b n/a
2022-06-05 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b n/a (Old value)
2020-10-22 New taxonomic reference entry Jäger, 2020c n/a
2020-10-22 Species distribution update Jäger, 2020c n/a (Old value)
2020-10-22 Species synonymy Jäger, 2020c Olios schonlandi synonymized with Olios auricomis
2020-10-22 Species synonymy Jäger, 2020c Olios pacifer synonymized with Olios auricomis
2020-10-22 Species synonymy Jäger, 2020c Olios rufilatus synonymized with Olios auricomis
2020-10-22 Species synonymy Jäger, 2020c Olios ituricus synonymized with Olios auricomis
2020-10-22 Species synonymy Jäger, 2020c Olios isongonis synonymized with Olios auricomis
2020-10-22 Species synonymy Jäger, 2020c Olios chiracanthiformis synonymized with Olios auricomis
2020-10-22 Species synonymy Jäger, 2020c Olios flavescens synonymized with Olios auricomis