Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010] Back
Gen.
Eupalaestrus Pocock, 1901 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00222 ]
N.B.: not a senior synonym of Pterinopelma Pocock, 1901 (which was considered a senior synoym of Weyenberghiana Mello-Leitão, 1941e: 322 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05141], replacement name for Weyenberghia Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 102 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05140] (type Lasiodora weijenberghi Thorell, 1894), preoccupied in Mammalia by Kraglievich, 1927, by Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1979b: 86, although Mello-Leitão's specimens are misidentified juveniles of Grammostola; see Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1961: 203, 1967a: 488) per Bertani, Nagahama & Fukushima, 2011: 3, contra Pérez-Miles, 1992: 28 and Raven, 1985a).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2023-06-15
2023-06-15
Described in
Pocock, 1901c: 546 (type Eurypelma campestratum Simon, 1891; gender masculine)
Pocock, 1901c: 546 (type Eurypelma campestratum Simon, 1891; gender masculine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 7 | accepted |
| 8 | synonym |
Reference
Edit history
Pocock, R. I. (1901c). Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 8(48): 540-555. doi:10.1080/03745480109443359 
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