Anoploscelus lesserti Laurent, 1946

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Male © Sherwood, Jocqué & Henrard (2024), adult male from Burundi, dorsal view

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Laurent, R. F. L. (1946). Notes arachnologiques africaines II.-Sur quelques théraphosides du Congo Belge (Ischnocolinae, Eumenophorinae, Selenocosmiinae). Revue Zool. Bot. afr. 39: 293-326.

Distribution

RwandaBurundi

Type Locality: Kigali, Ruanda

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 1 adult male specimen record, against the rainfall where they live

Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near where these males were collected, Burundi. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 1179 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Specimen Records (2)

RG14389 ♀ Type Rwanda

Kigali Rwanda Eastern Zaire on Tanzanian border

BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara.247722 ♂ Burundi

Mt. Ruvubu, Muremera, Cibitoke

August 2016

Adult male of Anoploscelus lesserti with a regenerated right chelicera; first record of the genus Anoploscelus for Burundi. Collected 20 August 2016.

Bibliography (2)

Laurent, R. F. L. (1946). Notes arachnologiques africaines II.-Sur quelques théraphosides du Congo Belge (Ischnocolinae, Eumenophorinae, Selenocosmiinae). Revue Zool. Bot. afr. 39: 293-326.

Sherwood, D., Jocqué, R. & Henrard, A. (2024). A regenerated chelicera in an African tarantula, Anoploscelus lesserti Laurent, 1946 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Animal Taxonomy and Ecology 70 (4): 401-404.