Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897

♀ Female described ♂ Male described
Female Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Pocock, R. I. (1897). On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897.
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Distribution

South Africa

Type Locality: East London

Adult Male Activity

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

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Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near the type locality, East London. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 0 m. Southern hemisphere — seasons are inverted, so December is midsummer.

Specimen Records (2)

BMNH 91-8-2 ♀ Type South Africa

East London

col. H A Spencer

Brachionopus robustus ♂ South Africa

Bellair, Natal

October 1919 · col. Mr. E. C. Chubb

Taxonomic History

  1. 1897
    Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897

Bibliography (1)

Pocock, R. I. (1897). On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897.
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