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Genus: Poecilotheria Simon, 1885 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Poecilotheria formosa Pocock, 1899

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002351

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Described:

Distribution: India

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1898-1031-1-4) - (Nanayakkara et al., 2020)

Taxonomic References

Poecilotheria formosa Pocock, 1899a: 91 (Df) Original description

Poecilotheria formosa Schmidt, 1995j: 5, unnumbered f. (f)

Poecilotheria formosa Schmidt, 2003l: 245, f. 796 (f)

Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis Rao et al., 2006a: 49, pl. I, f. 1-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039506]

Poecilotheria formosa Gabriel, 2010b: 12, f. 1-13 (S of Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis)

Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 114 (no type repository, nomen nudum, unavailable name)

References

Gabriel, R. (2010b). Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis Rao et al., 2006, a junior synonym of Poecilotheria formosa Pocock, 1899. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 118: 12-15. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1899a). The genus Poecilotheria: its habits, history and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 3(13): 82-96, pl. 7. doi: 10.1080/00222939908678082 -- Show included taxa

Rao, K. T., Bastawade, D. B., Javed, S. M. M. & Krishna, I. S. R. (2006a). Description of two new species of spiders of the genus Poecilotheria Simon (Araneae: Theraphosidae) and Tmarus Simon (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Nallamalai Hills, eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 106(1): 49-54. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1995j). Die Stellung der Gattung Poecilotheria im System. Arachnida (Schweiz) 3(10): 4-5. -- Show included taxa

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

Sherwood, D. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2024). On ten unavailable and thirty-four dubious names for spiders (Araneae) from India. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 113-118. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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CITES (2020). Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, https://cites.org with appendices of protected species. Retrieved February 9, 2020 from https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php.

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
2024-07-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood & Caleb, 2024