Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Aphonopelma

Aphonopelma anax (Chamberlin, 1940)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-08-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001697]
  • Distribution: USA, Mexico
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Dugesiella anax Chamberlin, 1940a: 34 (Dmf).
Aphonopelma anax Smith, 1995: 71, f. 83-100 (mf).
Aphonopelma breenei Smith, 1995: 78, f. 151-158 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001706].
Aphonopelma anax Peters, 2000a: 24, f. 47 (f).
Aphonopelma anax Peters, 2003: 33, f. 110-112 (mf).
Aphonopelma breenei Peters, 2003: 40, f. 135 (f).
Aphonopelma breenei Peters, 2005b: 24, f. 58-61 (f).
Aphonopelma anax Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016: 38, f. 9, 10A-I, 11A-E, 12A-H, 13A-E, Suppl. material 4 (mf, S of Aphonopelma breenei).
Aphonopelma anax Sherwood, 2019b: 576, f. 3, 9 (m, ocular tubercle, labium).
References

Chamberlin, R. V. (1940a). New American tarantulas of the family Aviculariidae. Bulletin of the University of Utah 30(13): 1-39. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hamilton, C. A., Hendrixson, B. E. & Bond, J. E. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States. ZooKeys 560: 1-340. [Supplementary material] doi:10.3897/zookeys.560.6264 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

Sherwood, D. (2019b). Aphonopelma braunshausenii Tesmoingt, 1996 is a nomen dubium, with review of some historic morphological characters ineffective at species delineation (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 4657(3): 573-580. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.9 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

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-08-21 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, 2019b n/a
2016-03-10 Species distribution update Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016 n/a (Old value)
2016-03-10 New taxonomic reference entry Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016 n/a
2016-03-10 Species synonymy Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016 Aphonopelma breenei synonymized with Aphonopelma anax