Omothymus schioedtei Thorell, 1891

Common name: Malaysian earth tiger

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Live specimen © Phoorahong, Krityahun & von Wirth (2025), fig. 7, the mature female from Satun, Thailand, alive. Photo: Nopkrit Krityahun

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Thorell, T. T. T. (1891). Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Acad. Handl. 24(2): 1-149 [p. 11].

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Distribution

MalaysiaThailand

Specimen Records (1)

CUMZ (Satun female) ♀ Thailand

Khlong Khut Subdistrict, Mueang District, Satun

May 2025 · col. P. Phoorahong

Mature female of Omothymus schioedtei, and the first record of the genus from Thailand. Found in silk tubes about five metres up in crevices of palm trees. Deposited at the Chulalongkorn University Museum of Zoology; no catalogue number is given in the paper. Coordinates are not published.

Taxonomic History

1891
Omothymus schioedtei Thorell, 1891 Phoorahong, Krityahun & von Wirth (2025) recorded this species from Satun Province, Thailand - the FIRST RECORD OF THE GENUS OMOTHYMUS FROM THAILAND, and a considerable northward extension for a species previously thought endemic to Peninsular Malaysia.

Bibliography (2)

Thorell, T. T. T. (1891). Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Acad. Handl. 24(2): 1-149 [p. 11].

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Phoorahong, P., Krityahun, N. & von Wirth, V. (2025). New Record of the Genus Omothymus Thorell, 1891 from Southern Thailand (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 40(2): 19-36.