Chaetopelma concolor (Simon, 1873)

♀ Female described

Female © Igor Armiach Steinpress, in Finkel et al. (2024)

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Simon, E. (1873). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2me mémoir). Mém. Soc. roy. sci. Liège (2) 5: 187-351.

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Distribution

TurkeySyriaEgyptIsrael

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 the type locality, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Israel. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 592 m. Northern hemisphere seasons. Records span 2 countries (Egypt, Syria), so one climate curve cannot describe all of them.

Specimen Records (10)

MNHN 2848 ♂ Type Syria

Saïda

MNHN 2848 ♂ Type Syria

Saïda

col. M. Ch. De la Brùlerie

ZMB 47176 ♀ Turkey

Asia Minor

1897 · col. Holtz

MRAC 130698 ♂ Egypt

El Giza

June 1959 · col. P.L.G. Benoit

? ♀ Turkey

Nemrut Dag

July 1993 · col. Vladimír Šejna

NNHC-HUJ (Evolution Canyon II) Israel

Lower Nahal Keziv, Evolution Canyon II, Keziv Nature Reserve, Western Upper Galilee, 100-200 m, Northern District

2021 · col. M. Finkel et al.

116 individuals of Chaetopelma concolor collected in pitfall traps over 24 months (September 2019 - August 2021); the second most abundant arachnid at the site, found almost solely in traps installed under trees. Deposited at the Israel National Arachnid Collection, NNHC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

ZMB 47174 ♀ Syria

ZMB 47175 ♀ Syria

col. W. Kurbishar

ZMB 47177 ♀ Turkey

Cilicien

col. Holtz

ZMB 47179 ♀ Turkey

Tarsus

Bibliography (2)

Simon, E. (1873). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2me mémoir). Mém. Soc. roy. sci. Liège (2) 5: 187-351.

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Finkel, M., Ben-Asher, A., Shmula, G., Armiach Steinpress, I., Ganem, Z., Hammouri, R., Garcia, E., Szűts, T. & Gavish-Regev, E. (2024). Arachnid Assemblage Composition Diverge between South- and North-Facing Slopes in a Levantine Microgeographic Site. Diversity 16 (9): 540.