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Genus: Trichopelma Simon, 1888 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Trichopelma insulanum Petrunkevitch, 1926

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001623

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Described:

Distribution: US Virgin Is. (St. Thomas), Puerto Rico

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Museum of Natural History = United States National Museum (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA f - (Mori & Bertani, 2020)
Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f (F3872) of Trichopelma corozali - (Mori & Bertani, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Obaerarius insulanus Petrunkevitch, 1926: 40, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Psalistops corozali Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 17, f. 6-7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001618]

Leptopelma arastellatus Franganillo, 1930: 4 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056483]

Psalistops corozali Franganillo, 1931c: 285 (S of Leptopelma arastellatum)

Trichopelma corozali Raven, 1985a: 113 (T from Psalistops)

Trichopelma insulanum Mori & Bertani, 2020: 72, f. 137 (Dm, f, S of Trichopelma corozali)

References

Franganillo B., P. (1930). Arácnidos de Cuba: Mas arácnidos nuevos de la Isla de Cuba. Memorias del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas 1: 47-99. [[reprinted separately, pp. 1-55; only reprint seen and cited]] -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1931c). Excursiones arachnológicas, durante el mes de agosto de 1930. Revista Belen 1931(27-28): 285-288. -- Show included taxa

Mori, A. & Bertani, R. (2020). Revision and cladistic analysis of Psalistops Simon, 1889, Trichopelma Simon, 1888 and Cyrtogrammomma Pocock, 1895 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) based on a cladistic analysis of relationships of Theraphosidae, Barychelidae and Paratropididae. Zootaxa 4873(1): 1-132. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4873.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1926). Spiders from the Virgin Islands. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 28: 21-78. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. -- Show included taxa

Raven, R. J. (1985a). The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-11-06	Species distribution update	Mori & Bertani, 2020	Old value
2020-11-06	First description of male	Mori & Bertani, 2020	Old value
2020-11-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Mori & Bertani, 2020
2020-11-06	Species synonymy	Mori & Bertani, 2020		Trichopelma corozali synonymized with Trichopelma insulanum