Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Acanthoscurria

Acanthoscurria gomesiana Mello-Leitão, 1923

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2018-09-10
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001669]
  • Distribution: Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); f (00029, destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Holotype: Museu de Zoologia da ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ (MZLQ), Piracicaba, Brazil [collection now in IBSP?]; m (A0040) of Acanthoscurria aurita (Paschoal & Barros, 1983)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); m (14002, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Acanthoscurria pugnax
  • Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); 3m (00049, destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Acanthoscurria gomesiana Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 306, f. 51-55, 167 (Dm).
Phormictopus pheopygus Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 273, f. 150-152 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057123].
Acanthoscurria violacea Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 292, f. 182 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001689].
Cyrtopholis zorodes Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 143 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001991].
Acanthoscurria pugnax Vellard, 1924a: 142, pl. 8, f. 34 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001680].
Acanthoscurria aurita Piza, 1939a: 5, f. 2-3 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001658].
Acanthoscurria gomesiana Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1964: 411, pl. III, f. 4-9 (m, Df).
Acanthoscurria violacea Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1964: 415, pl. III, f. 19-21 (f, Dm).
Cyrtopholis zorodes Bücherl, Timotheo & Lucas, 1971: 124, f. 28 (f).
Acanthoscurria gomesiana Lucas, 1983c: 350 (S of Phormictopus pheopygus).
Acanthoscurria gomesiana Gonzalez-Filho et al., 2012: 2, f. 1a-d, 2a-f, 5a-f (mf, S of Acanthoscurria aurita, A. pugnax and A. violacea).
Acanthoscurria gomesiana Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018: 45 (S of Cyrtopholis zorodes).
References

Bücherl, W., Timotheo da Costa, A. & Lucas, S. (1971). Revisão de alguns tipos de aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha) estabelecidos por Cândido de Mello-Leitão e depositados no Museu Nacional do Rio. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 35: 117-138. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gargiulo, F. de F., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2018). Umbyquyra gen. nov., a new tarantula spider genus from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), with a description of eight new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 457: 1-50. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.457 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gonzalez-Filho, H. M. O., Lucas, S. M., Paula, F. dos S., Indicatti, R. P. & Brescovit, A. D. (2012). On the taxonomy of Acanthoscurria Ausserer from southeastern Brazil with data on the natural history of A. gomesiana Mello-Leitão (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). International Journal of Zoology 721793: 1-11. doi:10.1155/2012/721793 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, S. (1983c). Sobre a distribuição geográfica dos gêneros da subfamília Theraphosinae Thorell, 1870 no Brasil (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Memórias do Instituto Butantan 46: 339-352. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1923a). Theraphosideas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 13: 1-438. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Piza Jr., S. de T. (1939a). Novas aranhas do Brasil. Revista de Agricultura, Piracicaba 14(7-8): 1-8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1964). El género Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) en la Argentina. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 24: 391-417. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vellard, J. (1924a). Etudes de zoologie. Archivos do Instituto Vital Brazil 2: 1-32, 121-170. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-09-10 New taxonomic reference entry Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018 n/a
2018-09-10 Species synonymy Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018 Acanthoscurria zorodes synonymized with Acanthoscurria gomesiana
2018-09-10 New taxonomic reference entry Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018 n/a
2018-09-10 Species synonymy Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018 Acanthoscurria zorodes synonymized with Acanthoscurria gomesiana