This species is 91% complete

Ceratogyrus darlingi Pocock, 1897

South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique ♂♀

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IUCN Red List Status

Taxonomy and History

Scientific Name : Ceratogyrus darlingi
Synonyms : Ceratogyrus bechuanicus

Described By: Pocock, 1897
Researcher Profile: Reginald Innes Pocock
Genus: Ceratogyrus
Common Name: Rear Horned Baboon
Original Type Locality: Enkeldoorn, 110 miles S. of Salisbury in Mashunaland (J. ffolliott Darling). Three adult females.

- Ceratogyrus darlingii Pocock, 1897
- Ceratogyrus bechuanicus Purcell, 1902 [Male]
- Ceratogyrus schultzei Purcell, 1908 [Female]
- Ceratogyrus bechuanicus Lawrence, 1936 [Female]
- Ceratogyrus bechuanicus De Wet & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1991 [Synonym]

Specimen Records

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Ceratogyrus darlingi

♀ (BMNH 1897/4/6/3/5), Zimbabwe

♀ (BMNH dry tray AR511), Botswana

♂ (BMNH 1907-6-9-6), Zimbabwe

♀ (BMNH 1899-5-4-12), Zimbabwe

♂ (TM 16338), South Africa

♂ (TM 16337), South Africa

♂ (?), South Africa

♀ (PPRI AcAt 2005/2193), South Africa

♂ (?), South Africa

♀ (?), South Africa

♂ (?), Mozambique

♀ (?), Mozambique

♀ (TM 6022), Botswana

♀ (TM 6018), Botswana

♂ (BMNH 1912-4-10-1), Botswana

♀ (N M Z /A 1428), Zimbabwe

Paralectotype : ♀ (BMNH 1897-4-6-3-5), Zimbabwe

Lectotype : ♀ (BMNH 1897-4-6-3-5), Zimbabwe

♀ (NMZ/A 1713), Zimbabwe

♀ (NMZ/A 1712), Zimbabwe

♀ (NMZ/A 1574), Zimbabwe

♀ (NMZ/A 1475), Zimbabwe

♀ (NMZ/A 1225), Zimbabwe

♀ (NM Z/A 1483), Zimbabwe

♀ (NM Z/A 1310), Zimbabwe

♀ (NM 9866), Zimbabwe

♀ (NM 16028), Mozambique

♀ (NM 16009), Mozambique

♀ (NM 13747), Zimbabwe

♀ (BMNH 1908-12-23-6-7), Zimbabwe

Ceratogyrus bechuanicus

♀ (?), South Africa

♀ (TM 16404), South Africa

♂ (TM 6018), Botswana

♀ (TM 6024), Botswana

♀ (TM 6017), Botswana

♀ (TM 5373), South Africa

♀ (TM 5370), South Africa

♀ (TM 5366), South Africa

♀ (TM 16406), South Africa

♀ (TM 16405), South Africa

♀ (TM 16403), South Africa

♀ (TM 6020), Botswana

♂ (TM 16402), South Africa

♀ (TM 16401), South Africa

♀ (TM 16400), South Africa

♀ (TM 16399), South Africa

♀ (TM 16395), South Africa

♀ (TM 16394), South Africa

♀ (TM 16387), South Africa

♀ (TM 16386), South Africa

♀ (TM 16385), South Africa

(TM 6019), Botswana

♀ (TM 6021), Botswana

♀ (TM 16383), South Africa

(TM 8946), Botswana

♀ (TM16388), South Africa

♀ (TM 9763), South Africa

(TM 9189), Botswana

(TM 9188), Botswana

♀ (TM 9172), Botswana

(TM 9076), Botswana

(TM 9075), Botswana

(TM 8947), Botswana

♀ (TM 7784), South Africa

♀ (TM 6023), Botswana

(TM 7365), South Africa

♀ (TM 6625), South Africa

♀ (TM 6035), Botswana

♂ (TM 6034), Botswana

(TM 6032), Botswana

♀ (TM 6028), Botswana

(TM 6027), Botswana

(TM 6026), Botswana

♀ (TM 6025), Botswana

♀ (TM 16384), South Africa

♀ (TM 16382), South Africa

♂ (?), Botswana

♀ (NM 16016), South Africa

♀ (SMN 35010), Namibia

(NMZ/A 5606), Zimbabwe

♀ (NMZ/A 2198), Zimbabwe

♀ (NMZ/A 1507), South Africa

♀ (NMZ/A 1496), Zimbabwe

♀ (NM Z/A 7750), Zimbabwe

♀ (NM 16018), South Africa

♀ (NM 16017), South Africa

♀ (NM 16015), South Africa

♂ (SMN 35243), Namibia

♀ (NM 16007), South Africa

♀ (NM 13818), South Africa

♀ (NM 13745), South Africa

♀ (NM 13744), South Africa

♂ (NM 13742), Mozambique

♀ (NCA 89/504), South Africa

♀ (NCA 81/656), South Africa

♀ (MRAC 154648), South Africa

♀ (MRAC 154647), Botswana

♀ (SMN 35205), Namibia

♀ (SMN 35384), Namibia

♀ (TM 16381), South Africa

♀ (TM 16372), South Africa

♀ (TM 16380), South Africa

♀ (TM 16379), South Africa

♀ (TM 16378), South Africa

♀ (TM 16377), South Africa

♀ (TM 16376), South Africa

♀ (TM 16375), South Africa

♀ (TM 16374), South Africa

♀ (TM 16373), South Africa

♀ (TM 16371), South Africa

♂ (SMN 35674), Namibia

♀ (TM 16370), South Africa

♀ (TM 16369), South Africa

♀ (TM 16368), South Africa

♀ (TM 16367), South Africa

♀ (TM 16366), South Africa

♀ (TM 16365), South Africa

♀ (TM 16364), South Africa

♀ (TM 10983), Namibia

♂ (SMN 35758 Eava 383), Namibia

Syntype : ♂ (SAM 4539), Botswana

Ceratogyrus schultzei

Syntype : ♀ (ZMB 29829), Botswana

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

Ceratogyrus darlingi Pocock, 1897

Taxonomy and History

Specimen Records

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

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