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Genus: Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002371

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Described:

Distribution: Panama, Colombia

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Peabody Museum Yale (PMY), New Haven, Connecticut, USA m of Psalmopoeus rufus (subadult after Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022) - (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019b)
Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m - (Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 87, f. 2 (Dm) Original description

Psalmopoeus rufus Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 89 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002373]

Psalmopoeus pulcher Peters, 2003: 277, f. 1108-1109 (m)

Psalmopoeus pulcher Gabriel, 2014a: 135 (S of Psalmopoeus rufus)

Psalmopoeus pulcher Gabriel & Sherwood, 2018: 11, f. 1-12 (mf)

Psalmopoeus pulcher Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022: 82, f. 238-275 (mf)

References

Cifuentes, Y. & Bertani, R. (2022). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the tarantula genera Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871, Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1985, and Amazonius n. gen. (Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae). Zootaxa 5101(1): 1-123. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5101.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. (2014a). Revised taxonomic position of Psalmopoeus rufus Petrunkevitch, 1925 and Psalmopoeus affinis Strand, 1907 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). British Tarantula Society Journal 29(3): 132-137. -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2018). Re-description of the male of Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925 with the first description of the female (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 33(1): 8-18. -- 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1925a). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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
2022-02-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022
2022-02-24	Species distribution update	Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022	Old value
2022-02-24	Taxonomic reference update		Old value
2018-07-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Gabriel & Sherwood, 2018
2015-04-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Gabriel, 2014a
2015-04-06	Species synonymy	Gabriel, 2014a		Psalmopoeus rufus synonymized with Psalmopoeus pulcher