Taxon details


Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-02-24
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002371]
  • Distribution: Panama, Colombia
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Taxonomic references
Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 87, f. 2 (Dm).
Psalmopoeus rufus Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 89 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002373].
Psalmopoeus pulcher Peters, 2003: 277, f. 1108-1109 (m).
Psalmopoeus pulcher Gabriel, 2014a: 135 (S of Psalmopoeus rufus).
Psalmopoeus pulcher Gabriel & Sherwood, 2018: 11, f. 1-12 (mf).
Psalmopoeus pulcher Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022: 82, f. 238-275 (mf).
References

Cifuentes, Y. & Bertani, R. (2022). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the tarantula genera Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871, Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1985, and Amazonius n. gen. (Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae). Zootaxa 5101(1): 1-123. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5101.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. (2014a). Revised taxonomic position of Psalmopoeus rufus Petrunkevitch, 1925 and Psalmopoeus affinis Strand, 1907 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). British Tarantula Society Journal 29(3): 132-137. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2018). Re-description of the male of Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925 with the first description of the female (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 33(1): 8-18. 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1925a). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-02-24 New taxonomic reference entry Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022 n/a
2022-02-24 Species distribution update Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022 n/a (Old value)
2022-02-24 Taxonomic reference update n/a (Old value)
2018-07-11 New taxonomic reference entry Gabriel & Sherwood, 2018 n/a
2015-04-06 New taxonomic reference entry Gabriel, 2014a n/a
2015-04-06 Species synonymy Gabriel, 2014a Psalmopoeus rufus synonymized with Psalmopoeus pulcher