Pterinochilus lugardi Pocock, 1900

Common name: Dodoma Baboon

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Pocock, R. I. (1900). Some new Arachnida from Cape Colony. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 6.

Distribution

Botswana

Type Locality: Kwebe Hills, near Lake Ngami

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 9 adult male specimen records, against the rainfall where they live

Adult males collected

Of 9 adult males, 5 of 9 (56%) fall in the six wettest months, and 4 of 9 (44%) in the six warmest. Collections peak in April.

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near the type locality, Kwebe Hills, near Lake Ngami. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 955 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself. Records span 5 countries (Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe), so one climate curve cannot describe all of them.

Specimen Records (28)

TM 2864 ♀ Type South Africa

Nuanetsi River, Zoutpansberg dist.,

July 1916 · col. Mr G. van Dam

BMNH 1899-3-10-1 ♂ Type Botswana

Kwebe Hills, near Lake Ngami

col. Capt. E. J. Lugard, D .S .O ..

TM 5952 ♀ Type Botswana

Kabulabula

col. Fitzsimons

SMFD ♀ Type Zimbabwe

col. H.-J. Peters

AMGS 99236 Namibia

Okahandja (=Data Notes: OK)

November 1929 · col. Bradfield, R.

Quikbro??

TM 8954 ♂ Botswana

Mangetti forest, North Kalahari

January 1958 · col. Dr C. Koch

TM 15752 ♀ Namibia

1019 Grootfontein district, N. D. Maache

April 1970 · col. F. Wildhagen

MRAC 169.158 Tanzania

Dar es Salaam, UDSM campus

June 1974 · col. K. M. Howell

NMZA 5774 ♂ Zimbabwe

Mutare, 1832D3

April 1983 · col. H. Sykes

NMZA 2255 ♂ Zimbabwe

Chipinda pools, 2131B4

May 1984 · col. P. Kagoro

NMZA 2646 ♂ Zimbabwe

Chipinda pools, Gonarezhou

June 1984 · col. P. Kagoro

NMWN 39898 ♂ Namibia

Katima Mulilo, East Caprivi

October 1984 · col. C. H. G. Schlettwein

NMZA 6464 ♂ Zimbabwe

Majoda school, 10 km N. of West Nicholson

March 1988 · col. D. Ewbank

NMZA 6661 ♂ Zimbabwe

Kazuma forestry camp 1825B3

April 1988

NMZA 7843 ♀ Zambia

Sakeji school, 1124A2

October 1990 · col. D. G. Broadley

NMZA 11859 ♂ Zambia

BFA study plot, Choma wildlife game farm, drift fence pitfall

December 1994 · col. F. Nyathi

BMNH Tanzania

Dodoma

June 1998 · col. R. West via Tanzanian dealer

RGPC Tanzania

Dodoma

June 1998 · col. R. West via Tanzanian dealer

ZMB 32444 ♂ Tanzania

Dodoma

June 1998 · col. R. West via Tanzanian dealer

BMNH ♀ Tanzania

col. T. Ezendam via Tanzanian dealer

BMNH ♂ Tanzania

col. Andrew Fisher via Tanzanian dealer

BMNH Tanzania

col. R. Gabriel via Tanzanian dealer

MRAC 209.567 ♀ Tanzania

RGPC ♂ Tanzania

col. Andrew Fisher via Tanzanian dealer

RGPC ♀ Tanzania

ZMB 32445 ♀ Tanzania

col. R. Gabriel via Tanzanian dealer

AMGS 98995

AMGS 99135 Zimbabwe

Salisbury (=)

Taxonomic History

1900
Pterinochilus lugardi Pocock, 1900

Bibliography (1)

Pocock, R. I. (1900). Some new Arachnida from Cape Colony. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 6.