World Spider Catalog

Genus: Trichopelma Simon, 1888 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Trichopelma grande Ortiz & Fonseca, 2024

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062979

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Described:

Distribution: Cuba

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (73231) - (Ortiz & Fonseca, 2024)
Paratype: Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Colección Zoológica de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (IES-CZACC/IZ), La Habana, Cuba 1m - (Ortiz & Fonseca, 2024)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m (IZ167597) - (Ortiz & Fonseca, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Trichopelma grande Ortiz & Fonseca, 2024: 2195, f. 3, 4A-E, 5A-C, 6A-D (Dm) Original description

References

Ortiz, D. & Fonseca, E. O. (2024). A hairy giant among dwarves: Trichopelma grande, a distinct new species of tarantula from Cuba (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of Natural History 58(45-48): 2189-2205. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2401921 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Ortiz & Fonseca, 2024
2024-11-17	New species inserted	Ortiz & Fonseca, 2024

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