Poecilotheria rufilata Pocock, 1899

Common name: Redslate Ornamental

♀ Female described ♂ Male described
Female Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Pocock, R. I. (1899). Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida. Jour. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 12.

Distribution

India

Type Locality: Trivandrum in Travancore

Specimen Records (5)

BMNH 99 7.12-9 ♂ Type India

Trivandrum in Travancore

col. H. Ferguson

BMNH 19.7-12.8 ♂ India

Trivandrum

? ♀ India

Peppara Dam in the Agostyavalam Biospheric Reserver, North of the waterfalls

col. Charpentier

2 adult females, 4 sub adult males, rest juveniles

? ♀ India

Stretch of valley north of Ponmudi

col. Charpentier

? ♀ India

Stretch of valley north of Ponmudi

col. Charpentier

Taxonomic History

  1. 1899
    Poecilotheria rufilata Pocock, 1899

Bibliography (1)

Pocock, R. I. (1899). Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida. Jour. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 12.
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