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

Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli Smith, 2006

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039507

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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 m - (Smith, 2006a)
Holotype: Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai, India m (SP88) of Poecilotheria chaojii - (Sherwood & Tripathi, 2024)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK mf - (Smith, 2006a)

Taxonomic References

Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli Smith, 2006a: 86, f. 1-20 (Dmf) Original description

Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 25, f. 28a-b (mf)

Poecilotheria chaojii Mirza, Sanap & Bhosale, 2014b: 61, f. 1, 2a-b, 3a-c, 4a-c, 5a,c-d (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050522]

Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli Sherwood, 2019a: 19, f. 1-17 (mf, S of Poecilotheria chaojii)

Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli Sherwood & Tripathi, 2024: 13, f. 1A-H (m)

References

Mirza, Z. A., Sanap, R. V. & Bhosale, H. (2014b). Description of a new species of arboreal tarantula of the genus Poecilotheria Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Satpura Hills, Central India. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 29(2): 60-65. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2019a). Revised taxonomical placement of Poecilotheria chaojii Mirza, Sanap & Bhosale, 2014 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(1): 19-21. doi: 10.13156/arac.2018.18.1.19 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. & Tripathi, R. (2024). Notes on a type specimen of Poecilotheria Simon, 1885 from India (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 160: 13. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (2006a). A new species of Poecilotheria from northern peninsular India (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) with notes on its distribution and conservation status. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 21: 83-94. -- Show included taxa

West, R. C., Nunn, S. C. & Hogg, S. (2012). A new tarantula genus, Psednocnemis, from west Malaysia (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with cladistic analysis and biogeography of Selenocosmiinae Simon 1889. Zootaxa 3299: 1-43. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3299.1.1 -- 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	Comment
2024-07-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood & Tripathi, 2024
2019-04-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2019a
2019-04-01	Species synonymy	Sherwood, 2019a	Poecilotheria chaojii synonymized with Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli