Pterinochilus cryptus Gallon, 2008

♂ Male described
Male Male

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Gallon, R. C. (2008). On some poorly known African Harpactirinae, with notes on Avicuscodra arabica Strand, 1908 and Scodra pachypoda Strand, 1908 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14: 232-246 [p. 233, pl. 1, fig. 1-1].

Distribution

Angola

Type Locality: Angola, Lucira

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, Angola, Lucira. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 0 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Etymology

From the Greek for hidden, since the types were initially identified as atypical specimens of P. murinus.

Specimen Records (1)

TM 8938a ♂ Type Angola

Angola, Lucira

September 1956 · col. (G. Rudebeck)

Bibliography (1)

Gallon, R. C. (2008). On some poorly known African Harpactirinae, with notes on Avicuscodra arabica Strand, 1908 and Scodra pachypoda Strand, 1908 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14: 232-246 [p. 233, pl. 1, fig. 1-1].
The World Spider Catalogue