Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Avicularia

Avicularia metallica Ausserer, 1875

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-11-29
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001816]
  • Distribution: Suriname
Type deposit provide information
Taxonomic references
Avicularia metallica Ausserer, 1875: 185 (Df).
Avicularia metallica Peters, 2003: 89, f. 359, 362 (Dm).
Avicularia metallica Fukushima & Bertani, 2017: 123 (nomen dubium).
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

Fukushima, C. S. & Bertani, R. (2017). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera. ZooKeys 659: 1-185, Suppl. 1-5. doi:10.3897/zookeys.659.10717 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

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Date Type Reference Detail
2017-03-07 Taxon is nomen dubium Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 Avicularia metallica Ausserer, 1875 declared a nomen dubium