Amazonius subcaeruleus Bauer & Antonelli, 1997

Described by Stefan Bauer, Daniele Antonelli

Common name: Ecuadorian yellow

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Live specimen © Peñaherrera-R. et al. (2025, fig. 6) — non-type female (ZSFQ-i), in life

Bibliography

Bauer, S. & Antonelli, D. (1997). Eine weitere Tapinauchenius-Art aus Ecuador: Tapinauchenius subcaeruleus n. sp. (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift, Frankfurt a.M. 107: 428-432.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., León-E, R. J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., Falcón-Reibán, J. M., Fajardo-Torres, J. D., Picón-Rentería, P., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2025). Novel insights on Psalmopoeinae Samm & Schmidt, 2010 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): new species, taxonomic restorations, and reversal of four erroneous synonymies. Arachnology 20 (3): 491-508.

Distribution

Ecuador

Type Locality: (Exuvie), Ecuador. Das Material wird im Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M., deponiert.

Specimen Records (1)

SMF (subcaeruleus holotype, lost) ♀ Holotype Ecuador

"Ecuador" — pet-trade animal, no precise locality

Holotype female of Amazonius subcaeruleus, described from an exuvia. Never actually deposited at the Senckenberg museum as the original description claimed, and considered lost (Hüsser 2018).