Taxon details
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand, 1907)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2025-07-09
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001912]
- Distribution: Venezuela
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- Holotype: Museo de Biología, Universidad Central de Venezuela (MBUC/MUCV), Caracas, Venezuela; f (XII-529) of Chromatopelma variegatum (Santos et al., 2025c)
- Syntype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; mf
Delopelma cyaneopubescens Petrunkevitch, 1939a: 252.
Eurypelma cyaneopubescens Roewer, 1942a: 238.
Proshapalopus variegatus Caporiacco, 1955: 281 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037453].
Chromatopelma cyanopubescens Schmidt, 1995f: 25 (T from Eurypelma = Avicularia).
Proshapalopus variegatus Huber, Samm & Schmidt, 1996: 42 (nomen dubium).
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens Schmidt & Herzig, 1997: 12, f. 1-2 (m).
Proshapalopus variegatus Rudloff, 1997a: 5 (nomen dubium).
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens Schmidt, 1997g: 15, f. 23-24 (m).
Chromatopelma cyanopubescens Vol, 1999a: 11, f. C (f).
Chromatopelma cyanopubescens Schmidt, 2000a: 11, f. 1 (f).
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens Peters, 2000a: 95, f. 310 (m).
Metriopelma variegata Bertani, 2001: 286 (T from Proshapalopus, removed from nomen dubium).
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens Peters, 2003: 139, f. 558, 561-563 (mf).
Chromatopelma cyanopubescens Schmidt, 2003l: 124, f. 87-89 (mf).
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens Peters, 2005a: 14, f. 10 (f).
Hapalopus variegatus Gabriel, 2016: 86 (T from Metriopelma).
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019d: 8, f. 1-8 (habitus).
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens Santos et al., 2025c: 251, f. 6A-B (f, S of Hapalopus variegatus).
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 
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Caporiacco, L. di (1955). Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 1: 265-448. -- Show included taxa
Gabriel, R. (2016). Revised taxonomic placement of the species in the Central American genera Davus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892, Metriopelma Becker, 1878, and Schizopelma F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897, with comments on species in related genera (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 17(2): 61-92. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.2.61 -- Show included taxa
Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019d). Ontogenetic colour change in the Venezuelan theraphosine Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand, 1907) (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 146: 8-10. -- Show included taxa
Huber, S., Samm, R. & Schmidt, G. (1996). Theraphosidae der Welt. Arachnologisches Magazin, 64 pp. -- Show included taxa
Peters, H.-J. (2000a). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 1. Published by the author, 148 pp. -- 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
Petrunkevitch, A. (1939a). Catalogue of American spiders. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 33: 133-338. -- Show included taxa
Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. -- Show included taxa
Rudloff, J.-P. (1997a). Revision der Gattung Holothele Karsch, 1879 nebst Aufstellung einer neuen Gattung Stichoplastoris gen. nov. (Araneae, Theraphosidae) und Wiedereinsetzung einiger weiterer Gattungen der Mygalomorphae. Arachnologisches Magazin 5(2): 1-19. -- Show included taxa
Santos, N. A. S., Almeida, M. Q., Morais, J. W. de & Bertani, R. (2025c). New species of Jambu Miglio, Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2024 and Guyruita Guadanucci, Lucas, Indicatti & Yamamoto, 2007 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Brazil, with notes on Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875. Zootaxa 5660(2): 243-254. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5660.2.5 -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1995f). Chromatopelma gen.n.; eine neue Gattung der Theraphosidae (Arachnida: Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arthropoda 3(2): 25-26. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. & Herzig, V. (1997). Das Männchen von Chromatopelma cyanopubescens (Strand, 1907) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arthropoda 5(3): 11-14. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1997g). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (2000a). Die Spermathek von Chromatopelma cyanopubescens (Strand, 1907) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 8(7/8): 11-13. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Vol, F. (1999a). A propos d'une spermatheque inhabituelle. Arachnides 42: 1-13. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-09 | New taxonomic reference entry | Santos et al., 2025c | n/a |
| 2025-07-09 | Species synonymy | Santos et al., 2025c | Chromatopelma variegatum synonymized with Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens |
| 2020-01-21 | New taxonomic reference entry | Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019d | n/a |