World Spider Catalog

Genus: Nhandu Lucas, 1983 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Nhandu sylviae Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057451

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1952.11.26.1) - (Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023)
Paratype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2f (AR 4774) - (Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023)

Taxonomic References

Nhandu sylviae Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023: 709, f. 1-8 (Dmf) Original description

Nhandu sylviae Sherwood et al., 2026a: 522 (removed from S of Vitalius sorocabae, rejecting Bertani, 2023b: 110)

References

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Brescovit, A. D. (2023). Nhandu sylviae sp. nov.: first record of the genus from Guyana (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(4): 708-712. doi: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.4.708 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2026a). Redescription of Nhandu chromatus Schmidt, 2004 stat. rest. and revalidation of Nhandu sylviae Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023 stat. rest. (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 20(4): 519-526. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-03-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2026a
2026-03-05	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood et al., 2026a		Species transferred from Vitalius Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993 to Nhandu Lucas, 1983
2026-03-05	Species updated	Sherwood et al., 2026a	Old value
2023-12-30	Species updated	Bertani, 2023b	Old value	Status: Synonym
2023-12-30	Species transferred to new genus	Bertani, 2023b		Species transferred from Nhandu to Vitalius
2023-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023
2023-03-13	New species inserted	Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023