The Tarantula Bibliography :: February 2010

Heterothele Karsch, 1879
ISCHNOCOLINAE — type species: Heterothele honesta

Karsch, F. 1879.
Zwei neue afrikanische Vogelspinnen.
Sitz.-ber. Ges. naturf. Freu. Berlin 1879: 63-65.

Heterothele affinis Laurent, 1946
– Congo, Tanzania

Laurent, R. 1946.
Notes arachnologiques africaines II.-Sur quelques théraphosides du Congo Belge (Ischnocolinae, Eumenophorinae, Selenocosmiinae).
Revue Zool. Bot. afr. 39: 293-326 [p. 296, f. 2].

Heterothele atropha Simon, 1907
– Congo

Simon, E. 1907.
Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie.
Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova (3) 3: 218-323 [p. 222].

Heterothele caudicula (Simon, 1886)
– Argentina

Simon, E. 1886.
Arachnides recuellis en 1882-1883 dans la Patagonie méridionale, de Santa Cruz à Punta Arena, par M. E. Lebrun, attaché comme naturaliste à la Mission du passage de Vénus.
Bull. Soc. zool. France 11: 558-577 [p. 575].

Heterothele darcheni (Benoit, 1966)
– Gabon

Benoit, P.L.G. 1966.
Macrothele darcheni n. sp., dipluride nouveau du Gabon (Aran- Orthognatha).
Biologia gabonica 2: 87-89 [p. 87, f. 1-2].

Raven, R.J. 1983.
Notes on some mygalomorph spiders in the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Dipluridae, Hexathelidae, Ctenizidae: Araneae).
Revue Zool. afr. 97: 549-562.

Heterothele decemnotata (Simon, 1891)
– Congo

Simon, E. 1891.
Etudes arachnologiques. 23e Mémoire. XXXVII. Arachnides recueillis sue le haut Congo par M. Ant. Greshoff.
Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 60: 297-299 [p. 298].

Heterothele gabonensis (Lucas, 1858)
– Gabon

Lucas, H. 1858.
Aptères.
In Thomson, J. (ed.), Voyage au Gabon.
Arch. ent. Thomson 2: 373-445 [p. 382, pl. 13, fig. 1].

Grenier, C. 2008.
Research on the biotope of Heterothele gabonensis in Lopé National Park, Gabon.
Journal of the British Tarantula Society 23(4): 108-112.

Heterothele honesta Karsch, 1879
– Congo

Karsch, F. 1879.
Zwei neue afrikanische Vogelspinnen.
Sitz.-ber. Ges. naturf. Freu. Berlin 1879: 63-65 [p. 65].

Heterothele hullwilliamsi Smith, 1990
– Cameroon

Smith, A.M. 1990.
Baboon Spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East.
Fitzgerald Publishing, London [p. 119, f. 721-739].

Heterothele ogbunikia Smith, 1990
– Nigeria

Smith, A.M. 1990.
Baboon Spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East.
Fitzgerald Publishing, London [p. 120, f. 740-757].

Heterothele spinipes Pocock, 1897
– Tanzania

Pocock, R.I. 1897.
On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum.
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 724-774 [p. 737, pl. 41, f. 6].

Heterothele villosella Strand, 1907
– East Africa

Strand, E. 1907.
Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen.
Zool. Anz. 31: 525-558 [p. 552].

Raab, T. & B. Drolshagen. 2006.
Die Gattung Heterothele Karsch, 1879: Haltung und zucht von Heterothele villosella Strand, 1907 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae).
ARACHNE 11(4): 13-20.

Raab, T. & B. Drolshagen. 2007.
Keeping and breeding Heterothele villosella Strand, 1907 (Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae).
Journal of the British Tarantula Society 22(3): 82-88.

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