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Genus: Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Cymbiapophysa velox Pocock, 1903

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Described:

Distribution: Ecuador

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1898.15.12-13) - (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1jm ("syntype") - (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a)

Taxonomic References

Metriopelma velox Pocock, 1903b: 113 (Dm) Original description

Crypsidromus velox Petrunkevitch, 1911: 56

Crypsidromus velox Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1973b: 65, f. 51-57 (mf)

Crypsidromus velox Schmidt, 1993d: 61, f. 47-49 (mf)

Metriopelma velox Schmidt, 1997g: 17, f. 108-110 (m, Df, T from Crypsidromus = Lasiodora, contra Raven, 1985a)

Metriopelma velox Vol, 1999a: 12, f. P3 (f)

Metriopelma velox Schmidt, 1999f: 15, f. 25, 29 (mf; N.B.: text uses the combination M. morenii (Holmberg, 1876), listed under Lasiodora)

Metriopelma velox Peters, 2003: 236, f. 955-956, 960-961 (mf)

Metriopelma velox Schmidt, 2003l: 130, f. 140-142 (mf)

Metriopelma velox Peters, 2005b: 83, f. 265-269 (mf)

Pseudhapalopus velox Gabriel, 2016: 88, f. 74 (m, T from Metriopelma)

Cymbiapophysa velox Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a: 304, f. 3-9 (mf, T from Pseudhapalopus)

Cymbiapophysa velox Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2024a: 1013, f. 30-31 (m)

References

Gabriel, R. (2016). Revised taxonomic placement of the species in the Central American genera Davus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892, Metriopelma Becker, 1878, and Schizopelma F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897, with comments on species in related genera (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 17(2): 61-92. doi: 10.13156/arac.2006.17.2.61 -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2020a). Revised taxonomic placement of Pseudhapalopus Strand, 1907, with notes on some related taxa (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(4): 301-316. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.301 -- Show included taxa

Gerschman de P., B. S. & Schiapelli, R. D. (1973b). La subfamilia Ischnocolinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 4: 43-77. -- Show included taxa

Peñaherrera-R., P., Ghia, T., Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2024a). New insights on male palpal bulb morphology in Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020, with four new species from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(7): 1003-1017. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.7.1003 -- 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

Peters, H.-J. (2005b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 3. Published by the author, 130 pp. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1903b). On some genera and species of South-American Aviculariidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11(61): 81-115. doi: 10.1080/00222930308678729 -- 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. (1999f). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der argentinischen Vogelspinnen und kommentierte Liste der argentinischen Vogelspinnenarten (Arachnida: Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae. Arachnologisches Magazin 7(11/12): 1-17. -- Show included taxa

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

Vol, F. (1999a). A propos d'une spermatheque inhabituelle. Arachnides 42: 1-13. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2024-03-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2024a
2020-03-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a
2020-03-23	Species transferred to new genus	Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a	Species transferred from Pseudhapalopus to Cymbiapophysa
2016-10-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Gabriel, 2016
2016-10-03	Species transferred to new genus	Gabriel, 2016	Species transferred from Metriopelma to Pseudhapalopus