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Genus: Actinopus Perty, 1833 | Family: Actinopodidae Simon, 1892

Actinopus crassipes Keyserling, 1891

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000898

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK jf (1890.7.1.318) of Actinopus luteipes - (Sherwood et al., 2023e)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) m (00004) of Actinopus ceciliae (survived the fire 2018) - (Miglio, Pérez-Miles & Bonaldo, 2020)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1890.7.1.317) - (Sherwood et al., 2023e)

Taxonomic References

Pachyloscelis crassipes Keyserling, 1891: 3, pl. 1, f. 1-1b (Df) Original description

Pachyloscelis luteipes Keyserling, 1891: 5 (Df; j per F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: 732) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058879]

Actinopus luteipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: 730

Actinopus crassipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: 732 (S of Actinopus luteipes)

Actinopus crassipes Strand, 1916b: 81 (Df)

Actinopus crassipes Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 18, f. 128 (f)

Actinopus luteipes Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 22 (Dm)

Actinopus ceciliae Mello-Leitão, 1931a: 11, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000897]

Actinopus tarsalis Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 149 (misidentified, S of Actinopus crassipes and A. luteipes; subsequently rejected)

Actinopus crassipes Bücherl, 1957: 384, f. 5 (m)

Actinopus crassipes Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1962b: 72, pl. II, f. 3 (f)

Actinopus crassipes Lucas & Bücherl, 1965: 89, f. 1-18 (f)

Actinopus niger Bücherl, Timotheo & Lucas, 1971: 121, f. 2 (m, manuscript name by Mello-Leitão, tentatively identified as A. crassipes; actually the type of A. ceciliae)

Actinopus crassipes Silva-Moreira et al., 2010: 7 (S of Actinopus ceciliae)

Actinopus crassipes Miglio, Pérez-Miles & Bonaldo, 2020: 116, f. 104A-F, 105A-D, 106, 107A-C (m)

Actinopus crassipes Sherwood et al., 2023e: 3, f. 1-11 (f)

References

Bücherl, W. (1957). Sôbre a importância dos bulbos copuladores e das apófises tibiais dos machos na sistemática das aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 29: 377-416. -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W., Timotheo da Costa, A. & Lucas, S. (1971). Revisão de alguns tipos de aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha) estabelecidos por Cândido de Mello-Leitão e depositados no Museu Nacional do Rio. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 35: 117-138. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 3, 1-278. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Lucas, S. & Bücherl, W. (1965). Importância dos órgãos sexuais na sistemática de aranhas I. Varição interpopulacional dos receptáculos seminais em Actinopus crassipes (Keyserling) 1891, Actinopodidae Sul-Americanas. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 32: 89-94. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1923a). Theraphosideas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 13: 1-438. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1931a). Arachnidos do Rio Grande do Sul. Boletin Biologico Rio de Janeiro 17: 10-14. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- Show included taxa

Miglio, L. T., Pérez-Miles, F. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2020). Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Actinopus Perty, 1833 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Actinopodidae). Megataxa 2(1): 1-256. doi: 10.11646/megataxa.2.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1896). On the Theraphosidae of the lower Amazons: being an account of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during the expedition of the steamship "Faraday" up the river Amazons. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 64(3): 716-766, pl. 33-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1896.tb03076.x -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1962b). Importancia de las espermatecas en la sistemática de las arañas del suborden Mygalomorphae (Araneae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23: 69-75. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Ríos-Tamayo, D., Pett, B. L. & Hinchcliffe, M. J. (2023e). On the specimens of Actinopus Perty, 1833 deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, with redescriptions, first description of missing sexes, and notes on other taxa (Araneae: Actinopodidae). ZooNova 27: 1-31. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8234054 -- Show included taxa

Silva-Moreira, T., Baptista, R. L. C., Kury, A. B., Giupponi, A. P. L., Buckup, E. H. & Brescovit, A. D. (2010). Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II–Araneae. Zootaxa 2588: 1-91. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2588.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-08-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2023e
2020-10-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Miglio, Pérez-Miles & Bonaldo, 2020