World Spider Catalog

Genus: Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Aphonopelma platnicki Smith, 1995

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001758

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1894.2.18.1) - (Sherwood, 2019b)

Taxonomic References

Aphonopelma platnicki Smith, 1995: 130, f. 576-585 (Dm) Original description

Aphonopelma platnicki Sherwood, 2019b: 576, f. 1, 7 (m, ocular tubercle, labium)

References

Sherwood, D. (2019b). Aphonopelma braunshausenii Tesmoingt, 1996 is a nomen dubium, with review of some historic morphological characters ineffective at species delineation (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 4657(3): 573-580. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.9 -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1995). Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the U.S.A. and Mexico. Fitzgerald Publishing London, 196 pp. -- 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
2019-08-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2019b