Grammostola rosea (Walckenaer, 1837)

Common name: Chilean Rose

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris, 1.

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Distribution

BoliviaChileArgentina

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 1 adult male specimen record, against the rainfall where they live

Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near where these males were collected, Chile. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 238 m. Southern hemisphere — seasons are inverted, so December is midsummer.

Specimen Records (2)

FNAG36 N°1071 ♂ Neotype Chile

Limache, Provincia de Marga Marga, Región de Valparaíso

August 2017 · col. Rubén Montenegro y Andrés Olivera

Neotype male of Grammostola rosea.

FNAG36 s/n ♀ Chile

Limache, Provincia de Marga Marga, Región de Valparaíso

August 2017 · col. Rubén Montenegro y Andrés Olivera

Same collection data as the Grammostola rosea neotype.

Taxonomic History

1837
Mygale rosea Walckenaer, 1837
1996
Pérez-Miles et al. (1996) made Grammostola a junior synonym of Phrixotrichus, and figured the type male of this species as Phrixotrichus roseus. Grammostola has since been restored.

Bibliography (3)

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris, 1.

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Pérez-Miles, F. (1996). Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Mygalomorph 1: 33-68.

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Montenegro V., R. & Aguilera, M. A. (2024). Tarántulas chilenas de la subfamilia Theraphosinae (Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae): una revisión a nivel de género. Revista Chilena de Entomología 50 (2): 329-352.