Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Aphonopelma

Aphonopelma pallidum (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m
  • Last updated: 2019-08-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001753]
  • Distribution: Mexico
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1898.12.24.34–37) (Sherwood, 2019b)
Taxonomic references
Eurypelma pallidum F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897a: 21, pl. 1, f. 17 (Dm; not f, =Brachypelma albiceps Pocock, 1903).
Brachypelma pallidum Smith, 1986b: 50, f. 30h (Tm from Eurypelma=Avicularia).
Brachypelma pallidum Smith, 1987d: 50, f. 30h (m).
Aphonopelma pallidum Smith, 1993a: 14 (Tm from Brachypelma=Euathlus per Raven).
Aphonopelma pallidum Smith, 1995: 127, f. 549-559 (m).
Aphonopelma pallidum Peters, 2000a: 38, f. 102 (m).
Aphonopelma pallidum Peters, 2003: 63, f. 237-238, 242, 244 (m).
Aphonopelma pallidum Sherwood, 2019b: 576, f. 4, 10 (m, ocular tubercle, labium).
References

Peters, H.-J. (2000a). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 1. Published by the author, 148 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2003). Tarantulas of the world: Amerika's Vogelspinnen. Published by the author, Wegberg, Germany, 328 pp. [Longhorn & Gabriel, 2019: 109: "We consider much of the information in Peters (2003) as erroneous"] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1897a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 1-40, pl. 1-3. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2019b). Aphonopelma braunshausenii Tesmoingt, 1996 is a nomen dubium, with review of some historic morphological characters ineffective at species delineation (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 4657(3): 573-580. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.9 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1986b). The tarantula: classification and identification guide. Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 179 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1987d). The tarantula: classification and identification guide (second ed.). Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 179 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1993a). A new mygalomorph spider from Mexico (Brachypelma, Theraphosidae, Arachnida) Brachypelma baumgarteni Nsp. British Tarantula Society Journal 8(4): 14-19. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1995). Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the U.S.A. and Mexico. Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 196 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2019-08-21 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, 2019b n/a