This species is 45% complete

Hysterocrates apostolicus Pocock, 1900

São Tomé ♂♀

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Taxonomy and History

Scientific Name : Hysterocrates apostolicus

Described By: Pocock, 1900
Researcher Profile: Reginald Innes Pocock
Genus: Hysterocrates
Common Name: Cricket legged baboon
Original Type Locality: Loc. Island of St. Thomas in the Gulf of Guinea

- Hysterocrates apostolicus Pocock, 1900
- Hysterocrates apostolicus Berland, 1917
- Hysterocrates apostolicus Smith, 1986
- Hysterocrates apostolicus Smith, 1987
- Hysterocrates apostolicus Smith, 1990
- Hysterocrates apostolicus Schmidt, 1993
- Hysterocrates apostolicus Charpentier, 1995
- Hysterocrates apostolicus Peters, 1998
- Hysterocrates apostolicus Schmidt, 2003

Specimen Records

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Hysterocrates apostolicus

Holotype : ♀ (BMNH 5-13-4), São Tomé and Príncipe

Paratype : ♀ (BMNH 1900-5-13-5), São Tomé and Príncipe

♂ (MNHP 1922-12-24-1), São Tomé and Príncipe

Adult Male Activity

Some new African theraphosoid spiders in the British Museum

Reginald Innes Pocock ,1900

Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 6: 489-494
- Hysterocrates apostolicus, Hysterocrates didymus, Hysterocrates scepticus

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