Acanthoscurria geniculata C. L. Koch, 1841

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museu de Zoologia da ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ (MZLQ), Piracicaba, Brazil [collection now in IBSP?] m (A0092) of Acanthoscurria transamazonica - (Paschoal & Barros, 1983)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany m (2055) - (Gabriel, 2020a)
Taxonomic References
Mygale geniculata C. L. Koch, 1841a: vol. 9: 43, pl. 302, f. 718 (Dm) Original description
Scurria geniculata C. L. Koch, 1850: 74
Acanthoscurria geniculata Ausserer, 1871a: 206, pl. 1, f. 10 (m)
Acanthoscurria geniculata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: 737, pl. 34, f. 17 (Df)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Bücherl, 1957: 397, f. 63 (m)
Acanthoscurria transamazonica Piza, 1972a: 99, 1 fig. (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001687]
Acanthoscurria geniculata Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1979: 293, f. 15-16 (f)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Schmidt, 1986: 54, f. 76 (m)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Schmidt, 1993d: 76, f. 155-156 (mf)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: 41, f. 3-4, 6 (m)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Schmidt, 1997g: 17, f. 93, 98 (mf)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Schmidt, 1998e: 2, f. 1 (f)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Bertani, 2001: 325, f. 45-47 (mf)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Peters, 2003: 20, f. 59-61 (mf)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Schmidt, 2003l: 128, 142, f. 130, 245 (mf)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Paula et al., 2014: 64, f. 1-13 (mf, S of Acanthoscurria transamazonica)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018: 7, f. 1A-F (mf)
Acanthoscurria geniculata von Wirth & Hildebrandt, 2022: 39, f. 8-9 (m)
Acanthoscurria geniculata von Wirth & Hildebrandt, 2023: 48, f. 8-9 (m)
Acanthoscurria geniculata Rudloff, 2023: 1, f. 1-9, 12 (mf)
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]] -- Show included taxa

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 -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1957). Sôbre a importância dos bulbos copuladores e das apófises tibiais dos machos na sistemática das aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 29: 377-416. -- Show included taxa

Gargiulo, F. de F., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2018). Umbyquyra gen. nov., a new tarantula spider genus from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), with a description of eight new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 457: 1-50. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2018.457 -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1841a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Achter Band, pp. 41-131, pl. 265-288 (f. 621-694); Neunter Band, pp. 1-56, pl. 289-306 (f. 695-726). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 5. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 77 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.39561 -- Show included taxa

Paula, F. dos S., Gabriel, R., Indicatti, R. P., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2014). On the Brazilian Amazonian species of Acanthoscurria (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 31(1): 63-80. doi: 10.1590/S1984-46702014000100008 -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F., Lucas, S. M., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (1996). Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Mygalomorph 1: 33-68. -- 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"]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1896). On the Theraphosidae of the lower Amazons: being an account of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during the expedition of the steamship "Faraday" up the river Amazons. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 64(3): 716-766, pl. 33-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1896.tb03076.x -- Show included taxa

Piza Jr., S. de T. (1972a). A primeira aranha Theraphosidae descrita da Transamazônica. Revista de Agricultura, Piracicaba 47: 99-101. -- Show included taxa

Rudloff, J.-P. (2023). Acanthoscurria geniculata (C.L. Koch, 1841) eine Art mit Tücken. Arthropoda Popularis 2023(1): 1-12. -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1979). Las arañas de la subfamilia Theraphosinae (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 5: 287-300. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1986). Vogelspinnen: Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht. Albrecht Philler, Minden, 126 pp. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch Hannover, 151 pp. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1997g). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1998e). Ein rätselhafter Doppelgänger von Acanthoscurria geniculata (C. L. Koch, 1841) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 6(6/7): 2-4. -- Show included taxa

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

Wirth, V. von & Hildebrandt, K. (2022). Bleaching of taxonomically important body structures in spiders using the example of tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 37(1): 34-41. -- Show included taxa

Wirth, V. von & Hildebrandt, K. (2023). Das Bleichen von taxonomisch wichtigen Körperstrukturen bei Vogelspinnen (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachne 28(1): 46-51. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-02-01 New taxonomic reference entry Rudloff, 2023
2023-07-21 New taxonomic reference entry von Wirth & Hildebrandt, 2023
2022-09-30 New taxonomic reference entry von Wirth & Hildebrandt, 2022
2018-09-10 New taxonomic reference entry Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018
2014-09-14 New taxonomic reference entry Paula et al., 2014
2014-09-14 Species synonymy Paula et al., 2014 Acanthoscurria transamazonica synonymized with Acanthoscurria geniculata

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