Ischnocolus mogadorensis Simon, 1909

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Simon, E. (1909). Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (6) 1: 5-43.

Distribution

Morocco

Type Locality: Mogador

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 where these males were collected, Morocco. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 0 m. Northern hemisphere seasons.

Specimen Records (1)

CSL MOR_1742 ♂ Morocco

Anza, 41 m; argan grove with Euphorbia, in a burrow under a stone, Agadir Ida Outanane

March 2022 · col. N. Ouakri

Non-type male of Ischnocolus mogadorensis, collected by hand during the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve survey. Its palp and tibia I are figured by Ouakri et al. (2026).

Genitalia

Male palp © Ouakri et al. (2026, fig. 17A) — male palp, retrolateral view, CSL MOR_1742 from Anza. Photo: S. Lecigne

Taxonomic History

2022
Korba et al. (2022) removed this species from the synonymy of Ischnocolus valentinus and redescribed both sexes.
2026
Ouakri et al. (2026) recorded a male from Anza in the Agadir Ida Outanane Prefecture, at 41 m, taken by hand from a burrow under a stone in argan grove with Euphorbia — part of a survey of the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve in which it was the only theraphosid found among 39 species from 17 families. The species is endemic to southern Morocco.

Bibliography (3)

Simon, E. (1909). Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (6) 1: 5-43.

(2026). Out of North Africa: Evolution and biogeography of Afro-Arabian dwarf tarantulas (Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 218: 108559.

(2026). Spiders from the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve of Souss-Massa region (Morocco), and descriptions of two new species (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 1051: 1-50.