Taxon details
Avicularia avicularia (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-04-16
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001791]
- Distribution: Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany; m (Nr. 418) of Avicularia exilis Strand 1907 (Jäger, 1998b)
- Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Avicularia cuminami Mello-Leitão, 1930, (00021); 1 j (survived the fire 2018)
- Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Typhochlaena scoparia C. L. Koch, 1841, (2029)
Aranea vestiaria De Geer, 1778: 313, pl. 38, f. 8-10 (Df) [regarded as nomen nudum by Fukushima & Bertani, 2017: 120].
Aranea vestiaria De Geer, 1783: 122, pl. 38, f. 8-10 (Df).
Mygale avicularia Latreille, 1804a: 152, pl. 62, f. 1 (D).
Mygale avicularia Latreille, 1806: 82, pl. 3, f. 1 (D).
Mygale avicularia Hahn, 1820: 16, pl. 3, f. A-B (m).
Mygale avicularia Hahn, 1833a: 101, f. 75 (m).
Avicularia vestiaria Ausserer, 1871a: 201.
Avicularia vulpina Ausserer, 1871a: 202.
Avicularia vestaria van Hasselt, 1888: 166 (mf).
Avicularia velutina Simon, 1889m: 213 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001838].
Avicularia avicularia Simon, 1892a: 171, f. 120.
Avicularia avicularia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: 741, pl. 33, f. 10-11, pl. 34, f. 19, pl. 35, f. 12 (mf).
Avicularia exilis Strand, 1907j: 220 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001803].
Avicularia ancylochira Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 330 (Df; N.B.: spelled this way in key and index, ancylochyra in heading, this spelling apparently intended, as per generic name Ancylochiros by same author) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001788].
Avicularia cuminami Mello-Leitão, 1930b: 56, f. 3 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001799].
Avicularia nigrotaeniata Mello-Leitão, 1940c: 178, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001818].
Avicularia velutina Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945: 191, pl. XVII (Dm).
Avicularia cuminamensis Bonnet, 1955: 830 (invalid emendation).
Avicularia avicularia Bücherl, 1957: 404, f. 91-91a (m).
Avicularia avicularia Valerio, 1979: 307, f. 7-10 (mf).
Avicularia avicularia Schmidt, 1986: 61, f. 105-106 (m).
Avicularia avicularia Schmidt, 1993d: 102, f. 310, 316-317 (mf).
Avicularia avicularia Peters, 2003: 80, f. 318 (f).
Avicularia avicularia Schmidt, 2003l: 200, f. 565-567; 256, f. 11 (mf).
Avicularia avicularia Peters, 2005a: 13, f. 8 (f).
Avicularia avicularia Fukushima & Bertani, 2017: 41, f. 1, 13, 17, 20-49, 299, 303, 311, 314, 316, 323 (mf, S of A. ancylochira, A. cuminami, A. exilis, A. nigrotaeniata, A. velutina).
Ausserer, A. (1871a). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 117-224, pl. 1. [incl. unpubl. manuscript by Doleschall] 
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Bonnet, P. (1955). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) [1re partie: A-B]. Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 1-918. -- Show included taxa
Bücherl, W. (1957). Sôbre a importância dos bulbos copuladores e das apófises tibiais dos machos na sistemática das aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 29: 377-416. -- Show included taxa
De Geer, C. (1783). Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekten aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Johann August Ephraim Goeze. Siebender und letzter Band. Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe, Nürnberg, 72-126, pl. 10-18, 38-39. -- Show included taxa
De Geer, C. (1778). Des araignées. In: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Tome septième. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, 176-324, pl. 11-19, 38-39. -- Show included taxa
Fukushima, C. S. & Bertani, R. (2017). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera. ZooKeys 659: 1-185, Suppl. 1-5. doi:10.3897/zookeys.659.10717 -- Show included taxa
Hahn, C. W. (1820). Monographie der Spinnen. Lechner, Nürnberg, Heft 1, pp. 1-16, 4 pls. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122225 -- Show included taxa
Hahn, C. W. (1833a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Erster Band, pp. 77-129, pl. 19-36 (f. 57-95); Zweiter Band, pp. 1-16, pl. 37-47 (f. 96-105). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- Show included taxa
Hasselt, A. W. M. van (1888). Araneae exoticae quas collegit, pro Museo Lugdunensi, Dr H. Ten Kate Jr. in Guyanâ Hollandicâ (Suriname). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 31: 165-200. -- Show included taxa
Latreille, P. A. (1804a). Arachnides. In: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Tome septième. Dufart, Paris, pp. 144-305. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15764 -- Show included taxa
Latreille, P. A. (1806). Genera crustaceorum et insectorum. Paris, tome 1, 302 pp. (Araneae, pp 82-127). -- Show included taxa
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae [= Stockholm], 821 pp. (Araneae, pp. 619-624). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.542 -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1923a). Theraphosideas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 13: 1-438. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1930b). Aranhas do Cuminá. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 32: 51-75. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940c). Spiders of the Guiana forest collected by O. W. Richards. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 2: 175-197. -- 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"] -- Show included taxa
Peters, H.-J. (2005a). Innereien. Tarantulas of the World 110: 7-14. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1896). On the Theraphosidae of the lower Amazons: being an account of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during the expedition of the steamship "Faraday" up the river Amazons. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 64(3): 716-766, pl. 33-35. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1896.tb03076.x -- Show included taxa
Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman, B. S. (1945). Parte descriptiva. In: Vellard, J., R. D. Schiapelli & B. S. Gerschman (eds.) Arañas sudamericanas colleccionadas por el Doctor J. Vellard. I. Theraphosidae nuevas o poco conocidas. Acta Zoológica Lilloana 3, 165-213. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1986). Vogelspinnen: Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht. Albrecht Philler, Minden, 126 pp. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1892a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-256. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1889m). Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887–Avril 1888). 4e Mémoire. Arachnides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 9: 169-220, pl. 12-13. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1907j). Eine neue Avicularia nebst Bemerkungen über andere südamerikanische Spinnen. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 60: 220-227. -- Show included taxa
Valerio, C. E. (1979). Arañas terafósidas de Costa Rica (Araneae: Theraphosidae). II. Psalmopoeus reduncus, redescripción, distribución y el problema de dispersión en terafósidas. Revista de Biología Tropical 27: 301-308. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-08 | New taxonomic reference entry | De Geer, 1778 | n/a |
| 2017-03-07 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Avicularia hirsutissima (C.L. Koch, 1842) | |
| 2017-03-07 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Avicularia testacea (C. L. Koch, 1841) | |
| 2017-03-07 | Taxonomic reference update | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2017-03-06 | Species synonymy | Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 | Avicularia nigrotaeniata synonymized with Avicularia avicularia |
| 2017-03-06 | Species synonymy | Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 | Avicularia cuminami synonymized with Avicularia avicularia |
| 2017-03-06 | Species synonymy | Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 | Avicularia ancylochira synonymized with Avicularia avicularia |
| 2017-03-06 | Species synonymy | Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 | Avicularia exilis synonymized with Avicularia avicularia |
| 2017-03-06 | Species synonymy | Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 | Avicularia velutina synonymized with Avicularia avicularia |
| 2017-03-06 | New taxonomic reference entry | Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 | n/a |
| 2017-03-06 | Species distribution update | Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 | n/a (Old value) |