Taxon details
Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2022-02-24
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002371]
- Distribution: Panama, Colombia
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- Holotype: Peabody Museum Yale (PMY), New Haven, Connecticut, USA; m of Psalmopoeus rufus (subadult after Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022) (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019b)
- Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; m (Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022)
Psalmopoeus rufus Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 89 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002373].
Psalmopoeus pulcher Peters, 2003: 277, f. 1108-1109 (m).
Psalmopoeus pulcher Gabriel, 2014a: 135 (S of Psalmopoeus rufus).
Psalmopoeus pulcher Gabriel & Sherwood, 2018: 11, f. 1-12 (mf).
Psalmopoeus pulcher Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022: 82, f. 238-275 (mf).
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 
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Gabriel, R. (2014a). Revised taxonomic position of Psalmopoeus rufus Petrunkevitch, 1925 and Psalmopoeus affinis Strand, 1907 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). British Tarantula Society Journal 29(3): 132-137. -- Show included taxa
Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2018). Re-description of the male of Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925 with the first description of the female (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 33(1): 8-18. -- 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
Petrunkevitch, A. (1925a). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-24 | New taxonomic reference entry | Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022 | n/a |
| 2022-02-24 | Species distribution update | Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2022-02-24 | Taxonomic reference update | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2018-07-11 | New taxonomic reference entry | Gabriel & Sherwood, 2018 | n/a |
| 2015-04-06 | New taxonomic reference entry | Gabriel, 2014a | n/a |
| 2015-04-06 | Species synonymy | Gabriel, 2014a | Psalmopoeus rufus synonymized with Psalmopoeus pulcher |