Heterothele atropha Simon, 1907

nomen dubium ♀ Female described

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Simon, E. (1907). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (3) 3.

Distribution

Congo

Specimen Records (1)

? ♀ Type Congo

French Congo

Taxonomic History

The holotype female could not be located — it is not in the MNHN and may be in Genoa — and the original description is insufficient to separate the species from its congeners, particularly the Gabonese ones. Nomen dubium (Gallon & Sherwood, 2026).

Bibliography (2)

Simon, E. (1907). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (3) 3.

Gallon, R. C. & Sherwood, D. (2026). Taxonomic notes on the tarantula genus Heterothele Karsch, 1879 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with a new synonymy, resurrection of H. longipalpis Karsch, 1879, two nomina dubia, and description of a new species from Tanzania. Arachnology 20 (4): 623-639.