Psalmopoeus irminia Saager, 1994

Common name: Venuzuelan Suntiger

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Saager, F. (1994). Psalmopoeus irminia sp. n., Beschreibung einer neuen Aviculariinae (Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae, genus Psalmopoeus) inclusive einem Vergleich mit Psalmopoeus cambridgei. Arthropoda 2: 59-71.

Distribution

VenezuelaBrazil

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 1 adult male specimen record, against the rainfall where they live

Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near the type locality, Venezuela, Brazil. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 425 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself. Records span 2 countries (Brazil, Venezuela), so one climate curve cannot describe all of them.

Pronunciation

sal-muh-PEE-uhs || urh-MI-nee-uh

Specimen Records (3)

UFMG 17888 ♂ Brazil

BRAZIL, Roraima: Amajari (Estância Ecológica SESC Tepequém, Vila Tepequém

July 2014 · col. L.S. Carvalho & M.C. Schneider

MNRJ 6872 ♀ Brazil

northern border of Brazil and Venezuela, in the municipality of Pacaraíma, state of Roraima, Brazil, near the right bank of the Miang River

August 2015

CNAN-Ar003508 ♂ Venezuela

Taxonomic History

1994
Psalmopoeus irminia Saager, 1994

Bibliography (2)

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.