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Genus: Lasiodora C. L. Koch, 1850 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Lasiodora benedeni Bertkau, 1880

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002260

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil f (14009) of Lasiodora cristata - (Bertani, 2023b)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil f (00050) of Lasiodora erythrocythara - (Bertani, 2023b)
Holotype: f (not found, presumed lost) - (Bertani, 2023b)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (21056) of Lasiodora differens - (Bertani, 2023b)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (20.980(63)) of Lasiodora curtior - (Bertani, 2023b)
Lectotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil f (139) of Lasiodora difficilis - (Bertani, 2023b)
Lectotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil m (151) of Lasiodora mariannae - (Bertani, 2023b)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1jm (20.980(64)) of Lasiodora curtior - (Bertani, 2023b)
Paralectotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil 1f (151) of Lasiodora mariannae - (Bertani, 2023b)

Taxonomic References

Lasiodora benedenii Bertkau, 1880a: 34, pl. 1, f. 10 (Df) Original description

Lasiodora curtior Chamberlin, 1917: 58, pl. 4, f. 6-7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002186]

Lasiodora differens Chamberlin, 1917: 56, pl. 4, f. 4-5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002187]

Lasiodora difficilis Mello-Leitão, 1921b: 345 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002188]

Lasiodora erythrocythara Mello-Leitão, 1921b: 347 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002191]

Lasiodora mariannae Mello-Leitão, 1921b: 341 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002200]

Pamphobeteus benedeni Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 229

Acanthoscurria cristata Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 297 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002499]

Lasiodora difficilis Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 257, f. 91, 161 (mf)

Lasiodora erythrocythara Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 260, f. 106, 170 (f)

Lasiodora mariannae Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 248, f. 93, 103, 164 (mf)

Lasiodora curtior Vellard, 1924a: 145, pl. 9, f. 36 (f, Dm)

Lasiodora curtior Bücherl, 1957: 400, f. 76-76a (m)

Lasiodora differens Bücherl, 1957: 401, f. 77-77a (Dm)

Lasiodora difficilis Bücherl, 1957: 401, f. 78-78a (m)

Lasiodora erythrocythara Bücherl, 1957: 402, f. 80 (Dm)

Lasiodora mariannica Bonnet, 1957: 2356 (unjustified emendation)

Pamphobeteus cristatus Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1964: 393, pl. 3, f. 22 (f, T from Acanthoscurria)

Lasiodora curtior Schmidt, 1986: 57, f. 87-88 (m)

Lasiodora differens Schmidt, 1986: 57, f. 89-90 (m)

Lasiodora difficilis Schmidt, 1986: 57, f. 91-92 (m)

Lasiodora erythrocythara Schmidt, 1986: 57, f. 93 (m)

Lasiodora curtior Schmidt, 1993d: 90, f. 236-237 (m)

Lasiodora differens Schmidt, 1993d: 90, f. 238-239 (m)

Lasiodora difficilis Schmidt, 1993d: 90, f. 240-241 (m)

Lasiodora erythrocythara Schmidt, 1993d: 90, f. 242 (m)

Lasiodora curtior Schmidt, 1997g: 18, f. 143-144 (m)

Lasiodora differens Schmidt, 1997g: 18, f. 139, 145 (m)

Lasiodora difficilis Schmidt, 1997g: 18, f. 140, 146 (m)

Lasiodora erythocytara Schmidt, 1997g: 18, f. 147 (m)

Vitalius cristatus Schmidt, 1998g: 16 (T from Pamphobeteus)

Vitalius cristatus Peters, 2000b: 131, f. 384 (f; m see Vitalius chromatus)

Lasiodora difficilis Peters, 2000b: 37, f. 80-81 (m)

Lasiodora benedenii Bertani, 2001: 285 (T from Pamphobeteus)

Lasiodora cristata Bertani, 2001: 285 (T from Vitalius)

Lasiodora cristata Peters, 2003: 212, f. 854 (f; m see Vitalius chromatus)

Lasiodora difficilis Peters, 2003: 214, f. 863-864, 866, 868 (m)

Lasiodora benedeni Schmidt, 2003l: 172, f. 406 (f)

Lasiodora cristata Schmidt, 2003l: 172, f. 407 (f)

Lasiodora curtior Schmidt, 2003l: 172, f. 408-409 (m)

Lasiodora differens Schmidt, 2003l: 173, f. 410-411 (m)

Lasiodora difficilis Schmidt, 2003l: 173, f. 412-413 (m)

Lasiodora erythrocythara Schmidt, 2003l: 173, f. 414 (m)

Lasiodora cristata Schmidt, 2004b: 7, f. 4 (f)

Lasiodora benedeni Bertani, 2023b: 43, f. 14, 75-122 (mf, S of Lasiodora cristata, L. curtior, L. differens, L. difficilis, L. erythrocythara and L. mariannae)

References

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

Bertani, R. (2023b). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Lasiodora C. L. Koch, 1850 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) with notes on related genera. Zootaxa 5390(1): 1-116. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5390.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Bertkau, P. (1880a). Verzeichniss der von Prof. Ed. van Beneden auf seiner im Auftrage der Belgischen Regierung unternommenen wissenschaftlichen Reise nach Brasilien und La Plata i. J. 1872-73 gesammelten Arachniden. Mémoires Couronnés et Mémoires des Savants Étrangers de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 43: 1-120. -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1957). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (3me partie: G-M). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 1927-3026. -- 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

Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61: 25-75. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1921b). On the genus Lasiodora, C. Koch. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 8(45): 337-350. doi: 10.1080/00222932108632590 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1923a). Theraphosideas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 13: 1-438. -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2000b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 2. Published by the author, 162 pp. -- 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

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1964). El género Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) en la Argentina. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 24: 391-417. -- 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. (1998g). Zum Beitrag von Günter Schmidt-Ein rätselhafter Doppelgänger von Acanthoscuriia geniculata. Arachnologisches Magazin 6(10/11): 16. -- Show included taxa

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

Schmidt, G. (2004b). Der Doppelgänger von Acanthoscurria geniculata (C.L. Koch, 1841) heist Nhandu chromatus sp. n. (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Tarantulas of the World 92: 6-11. -- Show included taxa

Vellard, J. (1924a). Etudes de zoologie. Archivos do Instituto Vital Brazil 2: 1-32, 121-170. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2023-12-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Bertani, 2023b
2023-12-29	Species synonymy	Bertani, 2023b	Lasiodora cristata synonymized with Lasiodora benedeni
2023-12-29	Species synonymy	Bertani, 2023b	Lasiodora erythrocythara synonymized with Lasiodora benedeni
2023-12-29	Species synonymy	Bertani, 2023b	Lasiodora mariannae synonymized with Lasiodora benedeni
2023-12-29	Species synonymy	Bertani, 2023b	Lasiodora difficilis synonymized with Lasiodora benedeni
2023-12-29	Species synonymy	Bertani, 2023b	Lasiodora curtior synonymized with Lasiodora benedeni
2023-12-29	Species synonymy	Bertani, 2023b	Lasiodora differens synonymized with Lasiodora benedeni