 "Chaetopelma altugkadirorum" is found within burrows (up to 50 cm in depth) in light pine forest of Yayladağı district of Hatay Province of Turkey and Ras al-Bassit of Syria.Burrows were often observed in association with rotten pine stumps, with the burrow excavated along the decaying remains of the stump’s root system.The epithet "altugkadirorum" a patronym honouring both Turkish arachnologists Altuğ Kızıltuğ and Kadir Boğaç Kunt, whose efforts were instrumental in securing material of this species for description.