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Aphonopelma crinirufum (Valerio, 1980)

Common name: Costa Rican blue front

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Valerio, C. E. (1980). Arañas terafósidas de Costa Rica (Araneae: Theraphosidae). III. Sphaerobothria, Aphonopelma, Pterinopelma, Citharacanthus, Crypsidromus y Stichoplastus. Revista de Biología Tropical 28: 271-296.

Distribution

Costa Rica

Type Locality: Monte Verde , Provincia de Puntarenas

Taxonomic History

  1. 1980
    Citharacanthus crinirufus Valerio, 1980

Bibliography (2)

Valerio, C. E. (1980). Arañas terafósidas de Costa Rica (Araneae: Theraphosidae). III. Sphaerobothria, Aphonopelma, Pterinopelma, Citharacanthus, Crypsidromus y Stichoplastus. Revista de Biología Tropical 28: 271-296.
Longhorn, S. J. & Gabriel, R. (2019). Revised taxonomic status of some Mexican and Central American tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with transfers from Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901, and a new genus from the Pacific lowlands of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Arachnology 18(2): 101-120.
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