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

Actinopus cucutaensis Mello-Leitão, 1941

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000899

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil

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Holotype: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN), Invertebrate Collection, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Natural History Museum Andes (NUCMHN), Bogotá, Colombia m (burned) - (Miglio, Pérez-Miles & Bonaldo, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Actinopus cucutaensis Mello-Leitão, 1941a: 114, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Actinopus cucutaensis Miglio, Pérez-Miles & Bonaldo, 2020: 191, f. 172A-F, 173A-D, 174A-F, 175A-D, 176A-D (m, Df)

Actinopus cucutaensis Osorio et al., 2025a: 74 (species inquirenda)

References

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941a). Notas sobre a sistematica das aranhas com descrição de algumas novas especies Sul Ameicanas. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 13: 103-127. -- 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

Osorio, L. M., Martínez-Hernández, N. J., Casalla Daza, R., Sherwood, D. & Quijano-Cuervo, L. G. (2025a). A new species of Actinopus Perty, 1833 belonging to the cucutaensis-group from Colombia (Araneae: Actinopodidae) with notes on its natural history. Arachnology 20(1): 70-75. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.70 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Osorio et al., 2025a
2020-10-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Miglio, Pérez-Miles & Bonaldo, 2020
2020-10-13	First description of female	Miglio, Pérez-Miles & Bonaldo, 2020	Old value
2020-10-13	Species distribution update	Miglio, Pérez-Miles & Bonaldo, 2020	Old value