This species is 45% complete

Hysterocrates laticeps Pocock, 1897

Nigeria ♂♀

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Taxonomy and History

Scientific Name : Hysterocrates laticeps

Described By: Pocock, 1897
Researcher Profile: Reginald Innes Pocock
Genus: Hysterocrates
Common Name: Nigerian rustred

- Hysterocrates laticeps Pocock, 1897
- Hysterocrates camerunensis Strand, 1907
- Hysterocrates laticeps Smith, 1986
- Hysterocrates laticeps Smith, 1987
- Hysterocrates laticeps Smith, 1990
- Hysterocrates laticeps Peters, 1998
- Hysterocrates laticeps Schmidt, 2003

Specimen Records

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Hysterocrates laticeps

Holotype : ♂ (BMNH 1895-4-1-1), Nigeria

♂ (BMNH 11-12-2-3), Nigeria

Paratype : ♀ (BMNH 1874-49), Nigeria

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On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum.

Reginald Innes Pocock ,1897

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897
- Pterinochilus murinus, Eumenophorus clementsi, Selenogyrus caeruleus, Selenogyrus aureus, Hysterocrates laticeps, Hysterocrates gigas, Hysterocrates crassipes, Heterothele spinipes, Anoploscelus celeripes, Ceratogyrus darlingi, Monocentropus balfouri, Brachionopus robustus, Pterinochilus vorax, Harpactira lineata, Harpactira curvipes, Harpactira chrysogaster, Ceratogyrus marshalli, Stromatopelma calceatum griseipes

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