Family: Theraphosidae Thorell,1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010] Back
Gen.
Sericopelma Ausserer ,
1875 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00281 ]
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Mygalarachne Ausserer, 1871 (considered instead a nomen dubium) by Lucas et al., 1991: 229, contra Raven, 1985a: 153, who also considered that name a senior synonym of Harpaxictis Simon, 1892 ["tentatively placed" as a nomen dubium by Gabriel & Longhorn, 2011: 163] and Nhandu Lucas, 1983, but that latter synonymy has not been accepted by later workers.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2020-06-05
2020-06-05
Described in
Ausserer, 1875: 195 (type Sericopelma rubronitens Ausserer, 1875; gender neuter)
Ausserer, 1875: 195 (type Sericopelma rubronitens Ausserer, 1875; gender neuter)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 14 | accepted |
| 2 | synonym |
| 1 | nomen dubium |
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