Taxon details
Poecilotheria formosa Pocock, 1899
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2024-07-14
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002351]
- Distribution: India
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (1898-1031-1-4) (Nanayakkara et al., 2020)
Poecilotheria formosa Schmidt, 1995j: 5, unnumbered f. (f).
Poecilotheria formosa Schmidt, 2003l: 245, f. 796 (f).
Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis Rao et al., 2006a: 49, pl. I, f. 1-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039506].
Poecilotheria formosa Gabriel, 2010b: 12, f. 1-13 (S of Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis).
Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 114 (no type repository, nomen nudum, unavailable name).
Gabriel, R. (2010b). Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis Rao et al., 2006, a junior synonym of Poecilotheria formosa Pocock, 1899. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 118: 12-15. -- Show included taxa
Pocock, R. I. (1899a). The genus Poecilotheria: its habits, history and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 3(13): 82-96, pl. 7. doi:10.1080/00222939908678082 -- Show included taxa
Rao, K. T., Bastawade, D. B., Javed, S. M. M. & Krishna, I. S. R. (2006a). Description of two new species of spiders of the genus Poecilotheria Simon (Araneae: Theraphosidae) and Tmarus Simon (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Nallamalai Hills, eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 106(1): 49-54. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1995j). Die Stellung der Gattung Poecilotheria im System. Arachnida (Schweiz) 3(10): 4-5. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa
Sherwood, D. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2024). On ten unavailable and thirty-four dubious names for spiders (Araneae) from India. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 113-118. -- Show included taxa
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CITES (2020). Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, https://cites.org with appendices of protected species. Retrieved February 9, 2020 from https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php.
Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2024-07-14 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sherwood & Caleb, 2024 | n/a |