Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Pachistopelma

Pachistopelma rufonigrum Pocock, 1901

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2015-07-08
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002257]
  • Distribution: Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (39873) of Avicularia recifiensis (Bertani, 2012)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); f (00215) of Dolichothele scintillans (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil; j (29180) of Avicularia pulchra (survived the fire 2018) (Bertani, 2012)
  • Lectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (1888.47) (Bertani, 2012)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 1m (39872) of Avicularia recifiensis (Bertani, 2012)
  • Paralectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 2m 4f 2j (1888.47) (Bertani, 2012)
Taxonomic references
Pachistopelma rufonigrum Pocock, 1901c: 548 (Dmf).
Dolichothele scintillans Mello-Leitão, 1929c: 92 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002036].
Avicularia pulchra Mello-Leitão, 1933c: 171, f. 33 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001825].
Avicularia recifiensis Struchen & Brändle, 1996: 2, f. 1-4 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001828].
Pachistopelma rufonigrum Peters, 2003: 244, f. 982 (f).
Avicularia recifiensis Schmidt, 2003l: 202, f. 581-582 (mf).
Pachistopelma rufonigrum Peters, 2005a: 8, f. 3 (f).
Pachistopelma rufonigrum Bertani, 2012: 29, f. 29-45, 58-60, 67, 76-78 (mf, S of Avicularia pulchra and A. recifiensis).
Pachistopelma rufonigrum Cavallo & Ferretti, 2015: 882 (S of Dolichothele scintillans).
References

Bertani, R. (2012). Revision, cladistic analysis and biogeography of Typhochlaena C. L. Koch, 1850, Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901 and Iridopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae). ZooKeys 230: 1-94. doi:10.3897/zookeys.230.3500 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Cavallo, P. & Ferretti, N. E. (2015). The first Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Argentina: description and natural history of Hapalotremus martinorum sp. nov.. Journal of Natural History 49(15-16): 873-887. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.953226 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929c). Aranhas do Pernambuco, colhidas por D. Bento Pickel. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 1: 91-112. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1933c). A new theraphosid from Pernambuco and another, uncommon from Argentina. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 37: 171-173. 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. (2005a). Innereien. Tarantulas of the World 110: 7-14. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1901c). Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 8(48): 540-555. doi:10.1080/03745480109443359 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Struchen, R. & Brändle, D. (1996). Eine neue Avicularia-Art aus Pernambuco, Brasiien Avicularia recifiensis sp. n. (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 4(2): 1-9. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2015-07-08 New taxonomic reference entry Cavallo & Ferretti, 2015 n/a
2015-07-08 Species synonymy Cavallo & Ferretti, 2015 Pachistopelma scintillans synonymized with Pachistopelma rufonigrum