Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Grammostola

Grammostola anthracina (C. L. Koch, 1842)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-04-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001789]
  • Distribution: Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Mygale anthracina C. L. Koch, 1842, (2040)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Grammostola longimana Mello-Leitão, 1921, (01283); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Grammostola roquettei Mello-Leitão, 1921, (01595); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Mygale anthracina C. L. Koch, 1842: vol. 9: 77, pl. 315, f. 739 (Df).
Eurypelma anthracina C. L. Koch, 1850: 73.
Eurypelma mollicomum Ausserer, 1875: 198 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002020].
Eurypelma mollicomum Keyserling, 1878a: 612, pl. 14, f. 28 (Dm; N.B.: a misidentified Eupalaestrus per Schmidt, 1999f: 10).
Citharoscelus mollicomus Pocock, 1903b: 99.
Grammostola roquettei Mello-Leitão, 1921a: 303 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057682].
Grammostola longimana Mello-Leitão, 1921a: 304 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057680].
Grammostola mollicoma Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 211.
Grammostola roquettei Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 212, f. 75-78 (m).
Grammostola longimana Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 214, f. 107-109 (m).
Grammostola mollicoma Bücherl, 1951: 111, f. 3.II, 28.II, 29, pls. I-II (mf, S of Grammostola longimana and G. roquettei).
Grammostola mollicoma Bücherl, 1957: 395, f. 55 (m).
Grammostola mollicoma Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1961: 202, f. 13-14 (m).
Grammostola mollicoma Schmidt, 1986: 52, f. 68 (m).
Grammostola mollicoma Pérez-Miles, 1989: 264, f. 1-2, 6-8 (mf).
Grammostola mollicoma Schmidt, 1993d: 88, f. 220 (m).
Phrixotrichus mollicoma Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: 55, f. 37 (f).
Grammostola mollicoma Schmidt, 1997g: 16, f. 54 (m).
Grammostola mollicoma Peters, 2003: 192, f. 775-776, 780 (mf).
Grammostola mollicoma Schmidt, 2003e: 3, f. 1 (m).
Grammostola mollicoma Schmidt, 2003l: 125, 167, f. 99, 381 (mf).
Grammostola mollicoma Peters, 2005b: 66, f. 213-217 (mf).
Grammostola anthracina Fukushima, Pérez-Miles & Bertani, 2011: 529, f. 2-4 (mf, T from Eurypelma = Avicularia, S of Grammostola mollicoma).
Grammostola anthracina Montes de Oca, D'Elía & Pérez-Miles, 2016: 328, f. 4A (m).
References

Ausserer, A. (1875). Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 25: 125-206, pl. 5-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1951). Estudos sobre a biologia e a sistemática do género Grammostola Simon, 1892. Monografias, Instituto Butantan 1: 1-203. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1957). Sôbre a importância dos bulbos copuladores e das apófises tibiais dos machos na sistemática das aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 29: 377-416. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fukushima, C. S., Pérez-Miles, F. & Bertani, R. (2011). On the Avicularia (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae) species from Uruguay. Journal of Arachnology 39(3): 528-532. doi:10.1636/A10-12.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1878a). Spinnen aus Uruguay und einigen anderen Gegenden Amerikas. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 571-624, pl. 14. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1842). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Neunter Band, pp. 57-108, pl. 307-324 (f. 727-755); Zehnter Band, pp. 1-36, pl. 325-336 (f. 756-776). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 5. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 77 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1921a). On the genus Grammostola, Simon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 7(40): 293-305. doi:10.1080/00222932108632524 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

Montes de Oca, L., D'Elía, G. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2016). An integrative approach for species delimitation in the spider genus Grammostola (Theraphosidae, Mygalomorphae). Zoologica Scripta 45(3): 322-333. doi:10.1111/zsc.12152 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F. (1989). Variación relativa de caracteres somáticos y genitales en Grammostola mollicoma (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Journal of Arachnology 17: 263-274. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F., Lucas, S. M., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (1996). Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Mygalomorph 1: 33-68. 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

Peters, H.-J. (2005b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 3. Published by the author, 130 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1903b). On some genera and species of South-American Aviculariidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11(61): 81-115. doi:10.1080/00222930308678729 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1961). Las especies del género Grammostola Simon 1892, en la República Argentina (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Actas y Trabajos del Congreso Sudamericano de Zoologia, La Plata I (La Plata, 1959) 3, 199-208. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1986). Vogelspinnen: Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht. Albrecht Philler, Minden, 126 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1997g). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003e). Untersuchung eines m and f von ?Eurypelma rubropilosum Auss., 1871. Tarantulas of the World 80: 3-5. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2016-09-23 New taxonomic reference entry Montes de Oca, D'Elía & Pérez-Miles, 2016 n/a