This species is 45% complete

Pterinochilus vorax Pocock, 1897

Angola, Central, East Africa ♂♀

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Taxonomy and History

Scientific Name : Pterinochilus vorax

Described By: Pocock, 1897
Researcher Profile: Reginald Innes Pocock
Genus: Pterinochilus
Common Name: East African Lesser Banded Baboon
Original Type Locality: Fwambo, Lake Tanganyika

- Pterinochilus vorax Pocock, 1897
- Pterinochilus vorax Strand, 1907
- Pterinochilus mutus Roewer, 1953
- Pterinochilus vorax Smith, 1990
- Pterinochilus vorax Schmidt, 1995
- Pterinochilus vorax Peters, 2000
- Pterinochilus vorax Gallon, 2002
- Pterinochilus vorax Schmidt, 2003

Specimen Records

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Pterinochilus vorax

♀ (ZMB 32164), Angola

♂ (MRAC 139.252), DR Congo

♀ (ZMB 32167), Tanzania

Holotype : ♂ (BMNH 1894.12.25.5), Tanzania

(MRAC 120.758), Rwanda

♂ (MRAC 139.281), DR Congo

(MRAC 139.276), DR Congo

(MRAC 139.271), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 139.266), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 139.265), DR Congo

(MRAC 139.261), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 139.254), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 134.234), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 014.437), Burundi

♂ (MRAC 127.090), DR Congo

♂ (MRAC 092.805), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 091.119), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 077.172), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 069.070), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 016.218), DR Congo

(MRAC 014.431), DR Congo

♀ (MRAC 130.612), Burundi

♀ (MRAC 068.100), Burundi

♂ (MRAC 067.261), Burundi

(MRAC 014.438), Burundi

♀ (ZMB 32169), Tanzania

Adult Male Activity

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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