Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925

Common name: Panama blonde

♀ Female described ♂ Male described
Female Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Petrunkevitch, A. I. (1925). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248.
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Distribution

Panama

Type Locality: Canal Zone

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 5 adult male specimen records, against the rainfall where they live

Dry seasonWet season12228°27°JFMAMJJASOND20285mm0
Adult males collected

Of 5 adult males, 4 of 5 (80%) fall in the six wettest months, and 2 of 5 (40%) in the six warmest. Collections peak in August. The wetter half of the year is much the closer fit here.

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near the type locality, Canal Zone. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 53 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Specimen Records (16)

? ♂ Type Panama

Mount Hope, Canal Zone

col. W. J. Baerg

? ♀ Type Panama

? ♀ Panama

Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island

January 1936 · col. J. Griswald

? juvenile Panama

Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island

1938 · col. A. Petrunkevitch

collected and identified A. Petrunkevitch originally misidentified as P. rufus det. R. Gabriel 24/06/11

? ♂ Panama

Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island

August 1938 · col. A. Petrunkevitch

collected and misidentified as 1 female P. rufus by A. Petrunkevitch det. R. Gabriel 24/06/11

? ♂ Panama

Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island

August 1938 · col. A. Petrunkevitch

collected and misidentified as P. rufus A. Petrunkevitch det. R. Gabriel 24/06/11

? ♀ Panama

Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island

July 1939

? ♀ Panama

East Chagres river bank at land lease of ponevac, near Casaya river, called locally Arana blanka, Gamboa medical clinic

July 1954 · col. E. Kimmel

? ♀ Panama

Villa Darien, Prov. Darien

February 1984 · col. Milton N. Garcia

? ♂ Panama

Rio de Chepo atas

November 1985 · col. Abraham Beuville

? ♂ Panama

Colon

January 1987 · col. Daniel Holmes

? ♀ Panama

Cerro Compara.

October 1990 · col. Prof. Muriö

? ♀ Panama

Estancia Rancho frio, P. N. Darien, Prov. Darien

October 2002 · col. A. Santos, R. Miranda, R. Cambra

? ♀ Panama

Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island

col. A. M. Chickering

MCZ 02138 ♀ Panama

Canal Zone, Atl[antic] side

col. Shropshire

removed from mixed jar of unidentified arachnids

? ♂ Panama

Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island

col. M. Bates

Taxonomic History

  1. 1925
    Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925

Bibliography (2)

Petrunkevitch, A. I. (1925). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248.
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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.
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