If anybody has a picture of this spider, post it here. You will have instant fame, if you are not famous already, like some of our home made Tarantula gods and other famous/infamous peoples !!

Stromatopelma satanas (Berland, 1917)

Thank you.

PS: Please don't post shite, just S satanas...

Here I was thinking all Stromatopelma were Satan's family :blink:

1917: Berland, L. Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'aviculariides africaines (Araneae: Aviculariidae).
Links to:
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pdf2/001064000027203.pdf

Page 473 describes Scodra satanas (Scodra L. Becker 1879) which is either a synonym of Stromatopelam satanas, or a moth. My French sucks :S

Seems like it has never been seen since. Anybody fancy going shaking some trees in the Congo?

"Unimpressive, small, dark, muddy male" according to Richard Gallon. Certainly not as exciting as the uniform black spider with red chelicerae that Berland described it as.

Thanks Mr. Chimp, I was hoping for a Satin Black arboreal with spectacularly red Chelicerae and fangs from Central Africa (just around the corner so to speak). Might this be the description of the females also? If Mr Gallon described a "muddy male", has a female been described/seen/photographed?

Its a Myth Joking, Cryptic Z and myself have spoken about this many times and have done some research on it too. And to no avail...

Raven, in his 1985 work, changed Scodra to Stromatopelma Karsch ,1881 as this name was already used in 1859 by Heinemann to describe a butterfly genus and since Stromatopelma was the oldest synonym it was used as the replacement name.
The female of satanas has never been described and to my knowledge no one has seen it (well not anyone who would give a toss anyway).