Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Tliltocatl

Tliltocatl epicureanus (Chamberlin, 1925)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-02-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001860]
  • Distribution: Mexico
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m (1140) (Chamberlin, 1925c)
  • Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 1m (1141) (Chamberlin, 1925c)
Taxonomic references
Eurypelma epicureana Chamberlin, 1925c: 107, f. 5 (Dm).
Dugesiella epicureana Petrunkevitch, 1939a: 254.
Brachypelma epicureana Smith, 1993a: 15 (Tm from Eurypelma=Avicularia per Roewer).
Brachypelma epicureanum Smith, 1995: 168, f. 916-925 (m).
Brachypelma epicureanum Schmidt & Bullmer, 1996: 3, f. 1 (Df).
Brachypelma epicureanum Rudloff, 2003: 8, f. 36, 38 (f).
Brachypelma epicureanum Rudloff, 2008b: 29, f. 12-16 (mf).
Tliltocatl epicureanum Mendoza & Francke, 2020: 131, f. 40A-D, 41A-B, 42A-B (mf, T from Brachypelma).
References

Chamberlin, R. V. (1925c). New North American spiders. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4) 14: 105-142. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mendoza, J. & Francke, O. (2020). Systematic revision of Mexican threatened tarantulas Brachypelma (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae), with a description of a new genus, and implications on the conservation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(1): 82-147. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz046 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1939a). Catalogue of American spiders. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 33: 133-338. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rudloff, J.-P. (2003). Eine neue Brachypelma-Art aus Mexiko, Brachypelma schroederi sp. n. (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arthropoda 11(3): 2-15. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rudloff, J.-P. (2008b). Eine neue Brachypelma-Art aus Mexiko (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arthropoda 16(2): 26-30. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. & Bullmer, M. (1996). Das Weibchen von Brachypelma epicureanum (Chamberlin, 1925) (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 4(7): 3-7. 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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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-02-27 Species updated Mendoza & Francke, 2020 Species epithet corrected (Old value)
2020-02-27 New taxonomic reference entry Mendoza & Francke, 2020 n/a
2020-02-27 Species transferred to new genus Mendoza & Francke, 2020 Species transferred from Brachypelma to Tliltocatl