Taxon details


Aphonopelma californicum (Doleschall, 1871)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: m
  • Last updated: 2022-05-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054104]
  • Distribution: USA
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Eurypelma californica Doleschall, in Ausserer, 1871a: 214 (Dm).
Eurypelma californica Smith, 1908a: 223, pl. 17, f. 1-2 (habitus).
Eurypelma californicum Comstock, 1910: 166, f. 5-6 (m).
Eurypelma californicum Comstock, 1910: 166, f. 5-6 (m).
Dugisiella californica Petrunkevitch, 1939a: 253 (T from Eurypelma).
Eurypelma californicum Comstock, 1940: 109, f. 97-98 (m).
Aphonopelma californicum Schmidt, 1993d: 78 (T from Dugisiella).
Aphonopelma californicum Smith, 1995: 80 (species name should be suspended = nomen dubium).
Aphonopelma californicum Nentwig, 2012: 128 (name used in many publications instead of Aphonopelma hentzi (Girard, 1852)).
References

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] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1910). The palpi of male spiders. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 3(3): 161-185. doi:10.1093/aesa/3.3.161 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 727 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Nentwig, W. (2012). The species referred to as Eurypelma californicum (Theraphosidae) in more than 100 publications is likely to be Aphonopelma hentzi. Journal of Arachnology 40: 128-130. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1939a). Catalogue of American spiders. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 33: 133-338. 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

Smith, A. M. (1995). Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the U.S.A. and Mexico. Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 196 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, C. P. (1908a). A preliminary study of the Araneae Theraphosidae of California. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 1(4): 207-236, pl. 13-20. doi:10.1093/aesa/1.4.207 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-06-10 New taxonomic reference entry Comstock, 1910 n/a