Poecilotheria smithi Kirk, 1996

Common name: Yellowbacked Ornamental

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Kirk, P. J. (1996). A new species of Poecilotheria (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Sri Lanka. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 12(1): 20-30.

Distribution

Sri Lanka

Type Locality: Haragama, near Kandy, Sri Lanka

Etymology

Named after arachnologist Andrew M. Smith

Specimen Records (2)

BMNH 1908.6.30.2 ♀ Type Sri Lanka

Haragama, near Kandy, Sri Lanka

December 1907 · col. Meade-Waldo

originally mis-labelled Poecilotheria subfusca

BMNH(E) 1996.182 ♂ Type Sri Lanka

Kandy region of Sri Lanka

col. Peter Klaas

Taxonomic History

  1. 1996
    Poecilotheria smithi Kirk, 1996

Bibliography (1)

Kirk, P. J. (1996). A new species of Poecilotheria (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Sri Lanka. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 12(1): 20-30.
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