Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Omothymus

Omothymus violaceopes (Abraham, 1924)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-08-17
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002179]
  • Distribution: Malaysia, Singapore
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (1924.27.19.1.37) (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c)
  • Paratype: National University of Singapore, Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Singapore; 9f 2j (in part in FMS Museum and in coll. Abraham; m belongs to Omothymus schioedtei) (Abraham, 1924)
Taxonomic references
Lampropelma violaceopedes Abraham, 1924: 1108, pl. 5, f. 19-22 (Df; m see Omothymus schioedtei; specific epithets cannot be plural).
Lampropelma violaceopedes Smith, 1990a: 14, f. 1-15 (mf).
Lampropelma violaceopes Schmidt, 2003l: 252, f. 826-830 (mf).
Omothymus violaceopes Smith & Jacobi, 2015: 29 (T from Lampropelma; not followed here, because not sufficiently justified).
Omothymus violaceopes Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c: 140, f. 20-21 (m, T from Lampropelma).
References

Abraham, H. C. (1924). Some mygalomorph spiders from the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 94(4): 1091-1124. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1924.tb03332.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019c). The revised taxonomic placement of some arboreal Ornithoctoninae Pocock, 1895 with description of a new species of Omothymus Thorell, 1891 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 137-147. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.137 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. (1990a). A question of colour. British Tarantula Society Journal 5(3): 14-18. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. & Jacobi, M. A. (2015). Revision of the genus Phormingochilus with the description of three new species from Sulawesi and Sarawak and notes on the placement of the genera Cyriopagopus, Lampropelma and Omothymus. British Tarantula Society Journal 30(3): 25-48. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-08-17 New taxonomic reference entry Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c n/a
2019-08-17 Species transferred to new genus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c Species transferred from Lampropelma to Omothymus
2016-09-22 New taxonomic reference entry Smith & Jacobi, 2015 n/a