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Theraphosidae  Thorell, 1869 / Stromatopelma  Karsch, 1881   2 species

Stromatopelma calceatum (Fabricius, 1793)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002475

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Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Cameroon
Figures
species

male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Sherwood 2025)

species

male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Sherwood 2025)

species

male Bulbus
(Smith 1990)

species

male Bulbus
(Smith 1990)

species

female Spermathecae
(Smith 1990)

Distribution List
United Kingdom   (Sherwood, 2025) |||
References

Sherwood D (2025) Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 121-160 pdf

Smith A M (1990) Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 142 pp. pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
27-05-2025 Image insert
02-05-2025 Image insert
29-03-2025 Distribution insert Detail