Stromatopelma calceatum (Fabricius, 1793)

Common name: Featherleg Baboon, feather leg

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Fabricius, J. C. (1793). Entomologiae systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae 2, 407-428.

Distribution

GhanaWest Africa

Type Locality: Guineae, Aquapim

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 2 adult male specimen records, against the rainfall where they live

Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near where these males were collected, Guinea. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 0 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Specimen Records (3)

ZISP ARA_ARA_0000627 ♂ Guinea

Camayen (Camayenne), in a house, Conakry

December 1926 · col. Ivanov

Non-type male of Stromatopelma calceatum.

ZISP ARA_ARA_0000629 ♂ Guinea

Test Garden near Konakry (Conakry), French Guinea, Conakry

February 1927 · col. Ivanov

Non-type male of Stromatopelma calceatum.

ZISP ARA_ARA_0000673 ♂ Guinea

French Guinea (no precise locality)

1928 · col. Ivanov

Non-type male and one immature of Stromatopelma calceatum. Old label 91-928.

Taxonomic History

1793
Aranea calceata Fabricius, 1793

Bibliography (2)

Fabricius, J. C. (1793). Entomologiae systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae 2, 407-428.

Bariev, T. B. & Sherwood, D. (2025). New data on some African tarantulas including bulb morphology in Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897 (Aranei: Theraphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 34 (1): 58-63.