Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Cymbiapophysa

Cymbiapophysa velox (Pocock, 1903)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-03-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002239]
  • Distribution: Ecuador
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1898.15.12-13) (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a)
  • Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1jm ("syntype") (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a)
Taxonomic references
Metriopelma velox Pocock, 1903b: 113 (Dm).
Crypsidromus velox Petrunkevitch, 1911: 56.
Crypsidromus velox Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1973b: 65, f. 51-57 (mf).
Crypsidromus velox Schmidt, 1993d: 61, f. 47-49 (mf).
Metriopelma velox Schmidt, 1997g: 17, f. 108-110 (m, Df, T from Crypsidromus = Lasiodora, contra Raven, 1985a).
Metriopelma velox Vol, 1999a: 12, f. P3 (f).
Metriopelma velox Schmidt, 1999f: 15, f. 25, 29 (mf; N.B.: text uses the combination M. morenii (Holmberg, 1876), listed under Lasiodora).
Metriopelma velox Peters, 2003: 236, f. 955-956, 960-961 (mf).
Metriopelma velox Schmidt, 2003l: 130, f. 140-142 (mf).
Metriopelma velox Peters, 2005b: 83, f. 265-269 (mf).
Pseudhapalopus velox Gabriel, 2016: 88, f. 74 (m, T from Metriopelma).
Cymbiapophysa velox Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a: 304, f. 3-9 (mf, T from Pseudhapalopus).
Cymbiapophysa velox Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2024a: 1013, f. 30-31 (m).
References

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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2020a). Revised taxonomic placement of Pseudhapalopus Strand, 1907, with notes on some related taxa (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(4): 301-316. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.301 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gerschman de P., B. S. & Schiapelli, R. D. (1973b). La subfamilia Ischnocolinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 4: 43-77. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peñaherrera-R., P., Ghia, T., Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2024a). New insights on male palpal bulb morphology in Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020, with four new species from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(7): 1003-1017. doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.7.1003 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. 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

Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1997g). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1999f). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der argentinischen Vogelspinnen und kommentierte Liste der argentinischen Vogelspinnenarten (Arachnida: Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae. Arachnologisches Magazin 7(11/12): 1-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Vol, F. (1999a). A propos d'une spermatheque inhabituelle. Arachnides 42: 1-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-03-05 New taxonomic reference entry Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2024a n/a
2020-03-23 New taxonomic reference entry Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a n/a
2020-03-23 Species transferred to new genus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a Species transferred from Pseudhapalopus to Cymbiapophysa
2016-10-03 New taxonomic reference entry Gabriel, 2016 n/a
2016-10-03 Species transferred to new genus Gabriel, 2016 Species transferred from Metriopelma to Pseudhapalopus