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  • "New" species of Haplopelma & Ornithoctonus

    Hi all,

    we would like to let you know that a new paper on the Theraphosid subfamily Ornithoctoninae was published by us.
    We redefined the Ornithoctoninae genera, transferred Haplopelma hainanum and Haplopelma huwenum from the genus Ornithoctonus, Ornithoctonus costalis from Haplopelma and described two new species of Ornithoctoninae, Ornithoctonus aureotibialis and Haplopelma longipes.
    • Neue Erkenntnisse zur Vogelspinnen – Unterfamilie Ornithoctoninae, mit Beschreibung von Ornithoctonus aureotibialis sp. n. und Haplopelma longipes sp. n. (Araneae, Theraphosidae)

      Volker von Wirth & Boris F. Striffler

      New insights to the subfamily Ornithoctoninae are presented and its genera are redefined. Moreover two new species are described, which have been subject of studies by the senior author for many years.
      Ornithoctonus aureotibialis sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Ornithoctonus species by an orange – golden species fringe of hairs on retrolateral side of patella and tibia of leg I and II. The other new species, Haplopelma longipes sp. n., is easily recognised by its very long leg IV (RF < 90) in females.
      Ornithoctonus aureotibialis sp. n., is long time known in pet trade as Haplopelma sp. “aureopilosum”. It was recently described by SCHMIDT & SAMM 2005 as “Haplopelma chrysothrix”, a name, which is not available according to the ICZN, as no type depository was included in the description. The same happened with “Haplopelma vonwirthi” SCHMIDT 2005, which is unavailable as well, but is most probably a synonym of Haplopelma minax (THORELL 1897).


    The genera Haplopelma and Ornithoctonus consist now of the following species, which means some re-labelling for some of you:
    • Genus Ornithoctonus
      Ornithoctonus andersoni POCOCK 1892 (generic type)
      Ornithoctonus aureotibialis VON WIRTH & STRIFFLER 2005
      Ornithoctonus costalis (SCHMIDT 199 comb. n.

      Genus Haplopelma
      Haplopelma doriae (THORELL 1890) (generic type)
      Haplopelma robustum (STRAND 1907)
      Haplopelma salangense (STRAND 1907)
      Haplopelma minax group
      Haplopelma albostriatum (SIMON 1886)
      Haplopelma lividum SMITH 1996
      Haplopelma longipes VON WIRTH & STRIFFLER 2005
      Haplopelma minax (THORELL 1890)
      Haplopelma schmidti group
      Haplopelma hainanum (LIANG ET. AL. 1999)
      Haplopelma huwenum (WANG, PENG & XIE 1993) comb. n.
      Haplopelma schmidti VON WIRTH 1991 comb. n.

    We thought that might be of interest for you.

    All the best,
    Boris and Volker


    P.S: Here is the complete reference:
    VON WIRTH, V. & B. F. STRIFFLER (2005). Neue Erkenntnisse zur Vogelspinnen – Unterfamilie Ornithoctoninae, mit Beschreibung von Ornithoctonus aureotibialis sp. n. und Haplopelma longipes sp. n. (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Arthropoda 13 (2): 2-27.
    Chairman of the Deutsche Arachnologische Gesellschaft

  • #2
    Hi Boris

    Thank you for the info, and congratulations on the project. Like the other 609 people who have viewed the thread, I certainly appreciate adding to my education, so well done!

    Paul

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    • #3
      Where I can buy or access online this publication??

      Thanks.

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