Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Tapinauchenius

Tapinauchenius violaceus (Mello-Leitão, 1930)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2018-09-12
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001840]
  • Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (38042-84) of Tapinauchenius purpureus (Bertani, 2012)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); f (00023) (destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 1m (38046-84) of Tapinauchenius purpureus
Taxonomic references
Ephebopus violaceus Mello-Leitão, 1930b: 56, f. 4 (Df).
Avicularia violacea Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1992: 163 (Tf from Ephebopus).
Tapinauchenius purpureus Schmidt, 1995c: 11, f. 1 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002485].
Tapinauchenius purpureus Schmidt, 2003l: 206, f. 617 (f).
Tapinauchenius purpureus Peters, 2005b: 111, f. 353-356 (f).
Tapinauchenius violaceus West et al., 2008: 39, f. 21-22 (f, Sm).
Tapinauchenius violaceus Hüsser, 2018: 85, f. 14A-B (chelicerae) .
References

Hüsser, M. (2018). A first phylogenetic analysis reveals a new arboreal tarantula genus from South America with description of a new species and two new species of Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae,Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 784: 59-93. doi:10.3897/zookeys.784.26521 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, S., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (1992). The Brazilian species of the spider genus Ephebopus Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae), with description of E. uatuman n. sp. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 53: 161-166. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1930b). Aranhas do Cuminá. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 32: 51-75. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2005b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 3. Published by the author, 130 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1995c). Eine weitere Tapinauchenius-Art aus Französisch-Guyana, Tapinauchenius purpureus sp. n. (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(3): 11-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

West, R. C., Marshall, S. D., Fukushima, C. S. & Bertani, R. (2008). Review and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical tarantula genus Ephebopus Simon 1892 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with notes on the Aviculariinae. Zootaxa 1849: 35-58. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Date Type Reference Detail
2018-09-12 New taxonomic reference entry Hüsser, 2018 n/a