Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Avicularia

Avicularia arabica (Strand, 1908)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2017-03-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001878]
  • Distribution: supposedly Egypt but probably South America
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Avicuscodra arabica Strand, 1908, 1 f (2660-84)
Taxonomic references
Avicuscodra arabica Strand, 1908b: 771 (Df).
Avicularia arabica Gallon, 2008: 243, pl. 10, f. 39-41 (Tf from Chaetopelma per Raven, 1985a: 149).
References

Gallon, R. C. (2008). On some poorly known African Harpactirinae, with notes on Avicuscodra arabica Strand, 1908 and Scodra pachypoda Strand, 1908 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14: 232-246. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908b). Diagnosen neuer aussereuropäischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 32: 769-773. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2017-03-07 Taxon is nomen dubium Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 Avicularia arabica (Strand, 1908) declared a nomen dubium