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Genus: Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Neischnocolus panamanus Petrunkevitch, 1925

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002202

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Described:

Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Peabody Museum Yale (PMY), New Haven, Connecticut, USA f - (Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019)
Holotype: Museo de Invertebrados de la Universidad de Panamá (MIUP), Panama City, Panama m of Ami bladesi - (Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019)

Taxonomic References

Neischnocolus panamanus Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 85 (Df) Original description

Ami bladesi Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Gallon in Pérez-Miles et al., 2008: 59, f. 2, 16-18, 40 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041964]

Neischnocolus panamanus Gabriel, 2016: 87 (T from Lasiodora)

Ami bladesi Lapinski, Gabriel & Pérez-Miles, 2018: 420, f. 3-16 (Df)

Neischnocolus panamanus Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019: 152, f. 1, 3-4, 5A-B, 7A-B, 8 (f, S of Barropelma parvior [revalidated by Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025: 30] and of Ami bladesi)

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

Lapinski, W., Gabriel, R. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2018). Description of the female of Ami bladesi Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Gallon, 2008 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with notes on its distribution, ecology, and behaviour. Arachnology 17(8): 419-426. doi: 10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.419 -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F., Gabriel, R., Miglio, L., Bonaldo, A., Gallon, R., Jimenez, J. J. & Bertani, R. (2008). Ami, a new theraphosid genus from Central and South America, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Zootaxa 1915: 54-68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1915.1.3 -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F., Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019). Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925, senior synonym of Ami Pérez-Miles, 2008 and Barropelma Chamberlin, 1940 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 150-155. doi: 10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.150 -- 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 (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-09-30	Taxonomic reference update		Old value
2025-09-30	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Neischnocolus parvior (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936)
2025-09-30	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Neischnocolus parvior (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936)
2025-09-30	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Neischnocolus parvior (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936)
2019-08-19	Species synonymy	Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019		Neischnocolus bladesi synonymized with Neischnocolus panamanus
2019-08-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019
2019-08-19	Species synonymy	Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019		Neischnocolus parvior synonymized with Neischnocolus panamanus
2016-10-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Gabriel, 2016
2016-10-03	Species transferred to new genus	Gabriel, 2016		Species transferred from Lasiodora to Neischnocolus