Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Eupalaestrus

Eupalaestrus anomalus (Mello-Leitão, 1923)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-06-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002004]
  • Distribution: Brazil
Type deposit provide information
  • Lectotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil; m (555) (Bertani, 2001)
  • Paralectotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil; 3m (555) (Bertani, 2001)
Taxonomic references
Pamphobeteus anomalus Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 343 (Dm).
Eupalaestrus anomalus Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993: 245 (T from Pamphobeteus).
Proshapalopus amazonicus Bertani, 2001: 287, f. 62-65, 175 (m, Df, T from Eupalaestrus, replacement name, preoccupied in Proshapalopus by Mello-Leitão, 1923, see Proshapalopus anomalus) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037516].
Proshapalopus amazonicus Peters, 2003: 272, f. 1087, 1090-1091 (mf).
Proshapalopus amazonicus Schmidt, 2003l: 184, f. 474-476 (mf).
Proshapalopus amazonicus Schmidt, 2007c: 100, f. 5 (f).
Proshapalopus amazonicus Sherwood et al., 2021b: 839, f. 11-17 (m).
Eupalaestrus anomalus Galleti-Lima et al., 2023: 5, f. 3B (T from Proshapalopus, name restored, S of the replacement name Proshapalopus amazonicus).
References

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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Galleti-Lima, A., Hamilton, C. A., Borges, L. M. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2023). Phylogenomics of Lasiodoriforms: reclassification of the South American genus Vitalius Lucas, Silva and Bertani and allied genera (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11(1177627): 1-19. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1177627 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, S., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (1993). Vitalius a new genus of the subfamily Theraphosinae Thorell, 1870 from Brazil (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Spixiana 16: 241-245. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1923a). Theraphosideas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 13: 1-438. 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

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

Schmidt, G. (2007c). Zur Kenntnis der Theraphosinae-Weibchen mit verdickter Tibia IV. Spixiana 30: 99-101. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2021b). A new species of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Colombia and a transfer from Proshapalopus Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 838-843. doi:10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.838 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-06-15 Species updated Galleti-Lima et al., 2023 New status (Old value)
2023-06-15 New taxonomic reference entry Galleti-Lima et al., 2023 n/a
2023-06-15 Species synonymy Galleti-Lima et al., 2023 Eupalaestrus amazonicus synonymized with Eupalaestrus anomalus
2023-06-15 Species transferred to new genus Galleti-Lima et al., 2023 Species transferred from Proshapalopus to Eupalaestrus