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Aphonopelma seemanni (F.O.P.-Cambridge, 1897)

Common name: Costa Rican Zebra

♀ Female described ♂ Male described
Female Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1897). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 1-40.

Distribution

Costa Rica

Type Locality: Puerto Culebra, Costa Rica

Taxonomic History

  1. 1897
    Eurypelma seemanni F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897

Bibliography (3)

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1897). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 1-40.
Pérez-Miles, F. (1996). Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Mygalomorph 1: 33-68.
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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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