Taxon details

Family: Sparassidae / Genus: Palystes

Palystes ellioti Pocock, 1896

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-12-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029378]
  • Distribution: DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Palystes amanicus Strand, 1907, (31356)
  • Lectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; Palystes ellioti Pocock, 1896; f
  • Paralectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; Palystes ellioti Pocock, 1896; 2f
Taxonomic references
Palystes ellioti Pocock, 1896a: 58, pl. 8, f. 2 (Df).
Palystes amanicus Strand, 1907a: 541 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063304].
Palystes amanicus Strand, 1907n: 680 (j).
Palystes affinis Lessert, 1921: 397, f. 16 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063303].
Palystes ellioti Croeser, 1996: 67, f. 81-88 (mf, S of Palystes affinis and P. amanicus).
References

Croeser, P. M. C. (1996). A revision of the African huntsman spider genus Palystes L. Koch 1875 (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 37: 1-122. 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

Pocock, R. I. (1896a). Descriptions of some new South African spiders of the family Heteropodidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 17(97): 55-64, pl. 8. doi:10.1080/00222939608680323 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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