Talk:King baboon spider

Taxonomy name change
The species changed name from Citharischius crawshayi recently in a south african taxonomy paper. The new name being Pelinobius muticus.

''Gallon, R. C. 2010. On some Southern African Harpactirinae, with notes on the eumenophorines Pelinobius muticus Karsch, 1885 and Monocentropella Strand, 1907 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc., 15 (2): 29-48.''

Summary ''The taxonomy of five species of Southern African Harpactirinae and two species of Eumenophorinae from East and West Africa is addressed. Two new species of Harpactirinae are proposed: Harpactirella overdijki sp. n. and Idiothele mira sp. n. Idiothele nigrofulva (Pocock, 1898 ) is redescribed from its types and fresh topotypic material. The previously unknown male of the harpactirine Ceratogyrus paulseni Gallon, 2005 is described. Ceratogyrus ezendami Gallon, 2001 is transferred to the genus Augacephalus and diagnosed from its two congeners Augacephalus breyeri (Hewitt, 1919) and A. junodi (Simon, 1904). The eumenophorine genus Pelinobius Karsch, 1885 is revalidated and proposed as a senior synonym of Citharischius Pocock, 1900. Phoneyusa gregori Pocock, 1897, Phoneyusa bettoni Pocock, 1898, Citharischius crawshayi Pocock, 1900 and Phoneyusa rufa Berland, 1914 are treated as junior synonyms of Pelinobius muticus Karsch, 1885. The monotypic genus Monocentropella Strand, 1907 is treated here as a junior synonym of Eumenophorus Pocock, 1897.''

''The PDF of this paper will be available for download from this site as soon as I receive it. I only have the paper version at the moment.''

''Repercussions for hobbyists: Citharischius crawshayi is now called Pelinobius muticus Karsch, 1885. Ceratogyrus ezendami is now called Augacephalus ezendami (same spider as Augacephalus sp. Mozambique). Idiothele sp. Blue Foot is now called Idiothele mira.'' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.38.192 (talk) 20:35, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Bites cause strong hallucinations...?
It should be noted that the venom of this spider causes strong hallucinations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.124.116.101 (talk) 20:20, 14 November 2018 (UTC)


 * This is presumably referring to the claim in :


 * I just added the additional citation needed. I haven't Googled for other sources, but one Czech-language book seemingly not available outside the Czech Republic is not a sufficient citation for this plausible but extraordinary claim.  --Dan Harkless (talk) 05:46, 16 February 2019 (UTC)