Phrixotrichus scrofa (Molina, 1782)

Common name: Chilean copper

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Distribution

ChileArgentina

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 254 m. Southern hemisphere — seasons are inverted, so December is midsummer.

Specimen Records (2)

MZUC-UCCC 35897 ♂ Chile

Valle Nonguén, 150 msnm, Provincia de Concepción, Región del Biobío

November 1995 · col. C. Arocena

MZUC-UCCC 35897 ♀ Chile

Valle Nonguén, 150 msnm, Provincia de Concepción, Región del Biobío

November 1995 · col. C. Arocena

Taxonomic History

1782
Aranea scrofa Molina, 1782
1996
Pérez-Miles et al. (1996) moved it from Phrixotrichus to Paraphysa, a placement since undone.

Bibliography (3)

Molina, J. I. (1788). Compendio de la historia geográphica natural y civil del Reino de Chile, escrito en italiano por el Abate Don Juan Ignacio Molina, traducido al español por don Domingo Joseph Aguellado Mendoza. Madrid, vol. 1 (Araneae, p. 236).

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.