Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Acanthoscurria

Acanthoscurria musculosa Simon, 1892

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-01-10
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001676]
  • Distribution: Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (4059) of Acanthoscurria hirsutissimasterni [57843: data base search of type material, 11.01.2019] (Gabriel, 2020a)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (AR4791) (Gabriel, 2020a)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (1905.2.3.1) of Acanthoscurria sternalis (Gabriel, 2020a)
Taxonomic references
Acanthoscurria musculosa Simon, 1892d: 281 (Dm).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Pocock, 1903b: 86 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001683].
Acanthoscurria gigantea Tullgren, 1905: 11, pl. 1, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057120].
Acanthoscurria substernalis Strand, 1907l: 66 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057124].
Acanthoscurria gigantea Mello-Leitão, 1933c: 173 (Dm).
Acanthoscurria musculosa Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1964: 413, pl. III, f. 10-14 (m).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1964: 403, pl. I, f. 1-7 (mf, S of Acanthoscurria gigantea and A. substernalis).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1965a: 375, f. 4 (f).
Acanthoscurria musculosa Peters, 2000a: 17, f. 30 (f, probably misidentified A. chacoana).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Bertani, 2001: 325, f. 41-44 (mf).
Acanthoscurria musculosa Peters, 2003: 25, f. 78-79 (mf, probably misidentified A. chacoana).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Peters, 2003: 27, f. 88, 91-93 (mf).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Schmidt, 2003d: 12, f. 1 (f).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Schmidt, 2003l: 143, f. 246 (f).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Peters, 2005b: 21, f. 47-53 (mf).
Acanthoscurria hirsutissimasterni Schmidt, 2007a: 3, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039488].
Acanthoscurria sternalis Gabriel, 2011b: 26, f. 1 (f; N.B.: legend erroneously reads A. suina, per Gabriel).
Acanthoscurria sternalis Gabriel, 2011c: 12, f. 3 (f).
Acanthoscurria musculosa Gabriel, 2020a: 420, f. 36-50 (mf, S of Acanthoscurria hirsutissimasterni and A. sternalis).
Acanthoscurria musculosa Sherwood et al., 2021e: 141, f. 17 (f).
References

Bertani, R. (2001). Revision, cladistic analysis, and zoogeography of Vitalius, Nhandu, and Proshapalopus; with notes on other theraphosine genera (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 36(3): 265-356. doi:10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v36i3p265-356 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. (2011b). Beispiele von zusammengewachsenen Spermatheken bei Vogelspinnen (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Arachne 16(2): 24-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. (2011c). Nhandu carapoensis Lucas 1983 the senior synonym of Nhandu tripartitus Schmidt 1997 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 121: 11-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. (2020a). Revised taxonomic placement of some species in Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871 and Eupalaestrus Pocock, 1901 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(5): 409-429. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.5.409 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gerschman de P., B. S. & Schiapelli, R. D. (1965a). Observaciones sobre algunos tipos de arañas Mygalomorphae publicados por Tullgren en 1905. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 25: 375-378. 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. (2000a). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 1. Published by the author, 148 pp. 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. (2005b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 3. Published by the author, 130 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1903b). On some genera and species of South-American Aviculariidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11(61): 81-115. doi:10.1080/00222930308678729 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1964). El género Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) en la Argentina. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 24: 391-417. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2007a). Acanthoscurria hirsutissimasterni sp. n., eine bisher oft mit A. sternalis Pocock, 1903 verwechselte Vogelspinne aus Argentinien (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Tarantulas of the World 125/126: 3-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003d). Gehört die abgenildete Spermathek auch zu Acanthoscurria sternalis Pocock, 1903?. Tarantulas of the World 79: 12-14. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2021e). An anomalous spermathecae resolved after moulting events in a female of Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 with a review of spermathecal anomalies in theraphosid spiders (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 139-143. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1892d). Etudes arachnologiques. 24e Mémoire. XXXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Aviculariidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 61: 271-284. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907l). Aviculariidae und Atypidae des Kgl. Naturalienkabinetts in Stuttgart. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 63: 1-100. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1905). Aranedia from the Swedish expedition through the Gran Chaco and the Cordilleras. Arkiv för Zoologi 2(19): 1-81. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-01-10 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2021e n/a
2020-07-20 Species synonymy Gabriel, 2020a Acanthoscurria sternalis synonymized with Acanthoscurria musculosa
2020-07-20 Species synonymy Gabriel, 2020a Acanthoscurria hirsutissimasterni synonymized with Acanthoscurria musculosa
2020-07-20 New taxonomic reference entry Gabriel, 2020a n/a
2020-07-20 Species distribution update Gabriel, 2020a n/a (Old value)