Amazonius subcaeruleus (Bauer & Antonelli, 1997)

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela?


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (69513) of Pseudoclamoris burgessi - (Hüsser, 2018)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f (69514) of Pseudoclamoris burgessi - (Hüsser, 2018)
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany f (has never been deposited) - (Hüsser, 2018)
Taxonomic References
Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus Bauer & Antonelli, 1997: 429, f. 1-3 (Df) Original description
Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus Peters, 2000b: 122, f. 359 (f)
Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus Peters, 2003: 296, f. 1175 (f)
Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus Schmidt, 2003l: 206, f. 618 (f)
Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus Auer, Huber & Bochtler, 2007: 33, f. 42-46, 51 (f)
Pseudoclamoris burgessi Hüsser, 2018: 74, f. 4A-B, 5A-C, 6A-C (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050569]
Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus Hüsser, 2018: 88 (nomen dubium)
Amazonius burgessi Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022: 106, f. 345-352, 355-356, 362-363 (mf, T from Pseudoclamoris)
Amazonius subcaeruleus Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c: 493, f. 1A-F, 2A-B, 3A-D, 4A-E, 5A-B, 6 (Dm, f, T from Tapinauchenius, removed from nomen dubium, S of Pseudoclamoris burgessi)
References

Auer, H.-W., Huber, M. & Bochtler, A. (2007). Die Gattung Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871 im Portrait. Arachne 12(2): 4-39. -- Show included taxa

Bauer, S. & Antonelli, D. (1997). Eine weitere Tapinauchenius-Art aus Ecuador: Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus n. sp. (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 107: 428-432. -- Show included taxa

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

Hüsser, M. (2018). A first phylogenetic analysis reveals a new arboreal tarantula genus from South America with description of a new species and two new species of Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae,Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 784: 59-93. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.784.26521 -- Show included taxa

Peñaherrera-R., P., León-E., R. J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., Falcón-Reibán, J. M., Fajardo-Torres, J. D., Picón-Rentería, P., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2025c). Novel insights on Psalmopoeinae Samm & Schmidt, 2010 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): new species, taxonomic restorations, and reversal of four erroneous synonymies. Arachnology 20(3): 491-508. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.3.18 -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2000b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 2. Published by the author, Wegberg, Germany, 162 pp. -- 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

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

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-11-02 Species synonymy Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c Amazonius burgessi synonymized with Amazonius subcaeruleus
2025-11-02 New taxonomic reference entry Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c
2025-11-02 Species transferred to new genus Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c Species transferred from Tapinauchenius to Amazonius
2025-11-02 Species distribution update Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c Old value
2025-11-02 First description of male Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c Old value
2025-11-02 Species updated Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c Old value New status
2018-09-12 Taxon is nomen dubium Hüsser, 2018 Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus Bauer & Antonelli, 1997 declared a nomen dubium
2018-09-12 New taxonomic reference entry Hüsser, 2018
2016-09-20 New taxonomic reference entry Auer, Huber & Bochtler, 2007

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