Haploclastus bratocolonus Mirza, 2024

♀ Female described

Female © Zeeshan A. Mirza (2024), holotype female in life

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Bibliography

Mirza, Z. A. (2024). Systematics of the Western Ghats endemic tarantula subfamily Thrigmopoeinae with the description of a new genus and four new species. Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa 67 (2): 183-234.

Distribution

India

Type Locality: Near a stream, Poochipara, Silent Valley National Park, Kerala, 917 m

Etymology

The specific epithet is a compound word formed by fusion of two Latin words: brato, meaning tree, and colonus, meaning dweller, implying a tree-dwelling species.

Specimen Records (2)

BNHS SP 128 ♀ Holotype India

Near a stream, Poochipara, Silent Valley National Park, 917 m, Kerala

January 2014 · col. Rajesh Sanap & Zeeshan Mirza

Holotype female of Haploclastus bratocolonus; from tree hollows along a river, burrows 1.5-4 m above the ground. Collected 18 January 2014.

BNHS SP 129 ♀ Paratype India

Near a stream, Poochipara, Silent Valley National Park, 917 m, Kerala

January 2014 · col. Rajesh Sanap & Zeeshan Mirza

Paratype female of Haploclastus bratocolonus; same locality as the holotype. Found with an egg sac.