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Ornithoctonus andersoni Pocock, 1892

Common name: Asian Mahogany

♀ Female described

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Pocock, R. I. (1892). Supplementary notes on the Arachnida and Myriopoda of the Mergui Archipelago: with descriptions of some new species from Siam and Malaysia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 316-326.
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Distribution

Myanmar

Type Locality: MYANMAR: Mergui (= Myeik), Tanintharyi Region; holotype female in BMNH

Taxonomic History

  1. 1892
    Ornithoctonus andersoni Pocock, 1892
  2. Recorded in Myanmar from Tanintharyi Region (Ono et al., 2026).

Bibliography (2)

Pocock, R. I. (1892). Supplementary notes on the Arachnida and Myriopoda of the Mergui Archipelago: with descriptions of some new species from Siam and Malaysia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 316-326.
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Ono, H., Suzuki, Y., Okumura, K. & Aung, M. M. (2026). Spider Fauna of Myanmar, with a Checklist of the Species Recorded from 1878 to 2025 (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A 52(1): 1-56.
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