Tapinauchenius plumipes (C. L. Koch, 1842)

Common name: Trinidad Mahogany, mahogany

♀ Female described ♂ Male described
Live specimen Live specimen © Rogério Bertani, in Cifuentes & Bertani (2022, fig. 61) — in the wild under a palm-leaf retreat

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Koch, C. L. (1842). Die Arachniden (1842). Nürnberg, Neunter Band, pp. 57-108, Zehnter Band, pp. 1-36.
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Distribution

Suriname

Type Locality: Surinam

Taxonomic History

  1. 1842
    Mygale plumipes C. L. Koch, 1842
  2. 2022
    Cifuentes & Bertani (2022) designated a lectotype and paralectotype male (ZMB Kat. 2044-1,2, Suriname) and synonymised four names with this species: Tapinauchenius violaceus (Mello-Leitão, 1930) — and with it T. purpureus Schmidt, 1995 — T. concolor (Caporiacco, 1947) and T. gigas Caporiacco, 1954.

Bibliography (2)

Koch, C. L. (1842). Die Arachniden (1842). Nürnberg, Neunter Band, pp. 57-108, Zehnter Band, pp. 1-36.
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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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