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Genus: Antillena Bertani, Huff & Fukushima, 2017 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Antillena rickwesti (Bertani & Huff, 2013)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046225

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Described:

Distribution: Dominican Rep.

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m - (Santos & Bertani, 2024)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1f - (Santos & Bertani, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Avicularia rickwesti Bertani & Huff, 2013: 333, f. 2-14 (Df) Original description

Avicularia rickwesti Kaderka, 2016b: 122, f. 2-11 (Dm)

Antillena rickwesti Fukushima & Bertani, 2017: 153, f. 284-294 (mf, T from Avicularia)

Antillena rickwesti Santos & Bertani, 2024: 421, f. 3B, D, F, H, 5C, 8B (mf)

References

Bertani, R. & Huff, J. (2013). Avicularia rickwesti sp. nov., a remarkable new species of Avicularia (Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae) from Dominican Republic. Zoologia (Curitiba) 30: 333-337. doi: 10.1590/s1984-46702013000300012 -- Show included taxa

Fukushima, C. S. & Bertani, R. (2017). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera. ZooKeys 659: 1-185, Suppl. 1-5. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.659.10717 -- Show included taxa

Kaderka, R. (2016b). Description of the male of Avicularia rickwesti Bertani & Huff, 2013, a remarkable species from the Dominican Republic (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 121-127. -- Show included taxa

Santos, G. de los & Bertani, R. (2024). A new species of the Hispaniolan endemic genus Antillena Bertani, Huff and Fukushima, 2017 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae), with notes on the natural history of the genus. Zootaxa 5493(4): 419-430. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5493.4.7 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-08-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Santos & Bertani, 2024
2017-03-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Fukushima & Bertani, 2017
2017-03-07	Species transferred to new genus	Fukushima & Bertani, 2017		Species transferred from Avicularia to Antillena
2016-09-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Kaderka, 2016b
2016-09-27	First description of male	Kaderka, 2016b	Old value