Lasiocyano sazimai (Bertani, Nagahama & Fukushima, 2011)

Described by Rogério Bertani, Caroline Sayuri Fukushima, Roberto Hiroaki Nagahama

Common name: Iridescent Blue Tarantula

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Bibliography

Bertani, R., Nagahama, R. H. & Fukushima, C. S. (2011). Revalidation of Pterinopelma Pocock 1901 with description of a new species and the female of Pterinopelma vitiosum (Keyserling 1891) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Zootaxa 2814: 1-18.

Distribution

Brazil

Type Locality: Brazil, state of Bahia, Andaraí, Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina (S12°46'9.21'' W41°28'6.79'')

Etymology

The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Ivan Sazima, an important Brazilian zoologist who was the first researcher to collect exemplars of this species in the decades of 1970 and 1980. These specimens remained as the sole exemplars of the species