Selenogyrus aureus Pocock, 1897

♂ Male described

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Pocock, R. I. (1897). On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897.
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Distribution

Sierra LeoneGuinea

Type Locality: Sierra Leone

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 3 adult male specimen records, against the rainfall where they live

Dry seasonWet seasonDry season1226°22°JFMAMJJASOND20423mm0
Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near where these males were collected. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 918 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself. Records span 2 countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone), so one climate curve cannot describe all of them.

Specimen Records (5)

NHMUK 1865.83 ♂ Holotype Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone (no further locality data)

Holotype male of Selenogyrus aureus; no collector or date given. Examined by Sherwood, Henrard & Van Den Spiegel (2024).

BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara.216682 ♂ Guinea

Massif du Ziama Biosphere Reserve, pitfall traps in rainforest

July 1998 · col. D. Flomo

New record of Selenogyrus aureus; first record of the species from Guinea.

BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara.216680 ♂ Guinea

Massif du Ziama Biosphere Reserve, pitfall traps in rainforest

July 1998 · col. D. Flomo

New record of Selenogyrus aureus.

BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara.216681 ♂ Guinea

Massif du Ziama Biosphere Reserve, pitfall traps in rainforest

April 1998 · col. D. Flomo

New record of Selenogyrus aureus.

BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara.216683 ♂ Guinea

Massif du Ziama Biosphere Reserve, pitfall traps in rainforest

col. D. Flomo

New record of Selenogyrus aureus; no collection date given.

Taxonomic History

  1. 1897
    Selenogyrus aureus Pocock, 1897

Bibliography (2)

Pocock, R. I. (1897). On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897.
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Sherwood, D., Henrard, A. & Van Den Spiegel, D. (2024). Selenogyrus foordi, a new species and the first record of the subfamily Selenogyrinae Smith, 1990 from Guinea (Araneae, Theraphosidae). African Invertebrates 65 (2): 37-48.
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