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Genus: Decaphora Franganillo, 1931 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Decaphora variabilis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029476

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1901.3.3.131) - (Rheims & Alayón, 2014)

Taxonomic References

Pseudosparianthis variabilis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 119, pl. 8, f. 21 (Df) Original description

Tentabunda variabilis Fox, 1937e: 465

Decaphora variabilis Rheims & Alayón, 2014: 88, f. 7-8, 37-43 (Tf from Pseudosparianthis, Dm)

Decaphora variabilis Rheims, 2017: 437, f. 8, 12 (mf)

References

Fox, I. (1937e). The Nearctic spiders of the family Heteropodidae. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 27: 461-474. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Rheims, C. A. & Alayón, G. (2014). The huntsman genus Decaphora Franganillo, 1931 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae). Zootaxa 3815(1): 79-93. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.1.5 -- Show included taxa

Rheims, C. A. (2017). A new species of Decaphora Franganillo, 1931 (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae) from Colombia, with an identification key for all known species of the genus. Zootaxa 4323(3): 435-439. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.11 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2017-09-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Rheims, 2017
2014-06-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Rheims & Alayón, 2014
2014-06-12	First description of male	Rheims & Alayón, 2014	Old value
2014-06-12	Species transferred to new genus	Rheims & Alayón, 2014		Species transferred from Pseudosparianthis to Decaphora