World Spider Catalog

Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: for the year of description (1869 vs. 1870) see Sherwood et al., 2021: 396, Breitling, 2021b published a different opinion; Raven, 1994: 333 considered the Trichopelmatinae (genera Trichopelma and Psalistops) to belong to the Theraphosidae rather than to Barychelidae, but has not provided a phylogenetic argument for this change; Trichopelma was finally transferred to the Theraphosidae (Guadanucci, 2014: 514) as well as Psalistops (Mori & Bertani, 2020: 37), so in fact Trichopelmatinae is now transferred to Theraphosidae; the monophyly of Theraphosidae and of the most recognized theraphosid subfamilies was confirmed by Lüddecke et al., 2018 and by Foley et al., 2019.

Gen. Chromatopelma Schmidt, 1995 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00205

type Eurypelma cyaneopubescens Strand, 1907; gender neuter

In synonymy:

Chromatopelma variegatum (Caporiacco, 1955, T from Hapalopus) = Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand, 1907) (Santos et al., 2025c: 251)

Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand, 1907) | | Venezuela urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001912 TYPE SPECIES

Eurypelma cyaneopubescens Strand, 1907l: 35 (Dmf) Original description

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)