Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand, 1907)
Common name: Green Bottle Blue
Female Type Locality and Records
Type locality
Original Description
Distribution
Pronunciation
kroh-maa-tuh-PEL-muh | sy-aan-ee-o-pyoo-BEH-sinz
Synonyms
Proshapalopus variegatus Caporiacco, 1955 (= Metriopelma variegata, Hapalopus variegatus), synonymised by Santos, Almeida, Morais & Bertani (2025)
Specimen Records (1)
UCV XII-529 ♀ Holotype Venezuela
Holotype female of Proshapalopus variegatus Caporiacco, 1955, re-examined by Santos, Almeida, Morais & Bertani (2025) and found to match Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, of which it is now a junior synonym. A small female with a single fused spermatheca and a faded dorsal abdominal pattern.
Genitalia
Taxonomic History
- 1907 Eurypelma cyaneopubescens Strand, 1907. Placed in Delopelma by Petrunkevitch (1939) and in Chromatopelma by Schmidt (1995). Santos, Almeida, Morais & Bertani (2025) added Proshapalopus variegatus Caporiacco, 1955 - most recently treated as Hapalopus variegatus - as a junior synonym, after examining its female holotype from Santa Ana, Falcon, Venezuela, within this species' endemic range on the Paraguana Peninsula.