Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010] Back

Gen. Theraphosa Walckenaer, 1805 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00287 ]
N.B.: for the authorship (Walckenaer, 1805 vs. Thorell, 1870) see Sherwood et al., 2021: 396, Breitling, 2021b published a different opinion; the type species was fixed by Thorell, 1870b, who accepted Walckenaer's authorship; also Schinz, 1823: 115 used the name Theraphosa (unclear if as new or using Walckenaer's name); the mentionings of Teraphosa [sic] by Eichwald, 1830: 73 and Gistel, 1848: 156 belong to Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Breitling, 2021b: 30, 31); superfluous replacement name Theraphosia Dahl, 1901d: 52 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05212]; considered a senior synonym of Pseudotheraphosa Tinter, 1991: 6 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04827] (type P. apophysis Tinter, 1991) by Bertani, 2001: 316.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-04-16
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Walckenaer, 1805: 2 (type Mygale blondi Latreille, 1804; gender feminine)
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4accepted
Reference

Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. download pdf

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2021-03-30 Genus updated Author corrected (Old value)