First record of the genus Psalmopoeus (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in Brazil

Rogério Bertani; Flora Ortiz; Arthur Sena; Arthur Diesel Abegg; Marco Antonio de Freitas

doi:10.15560/12.2.1860

Check List 12(2): e19462, doi: 10.15560/12.2.1860

First record of the genus Psalmopoeus (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in Brazil

Rogério Bertani^‡, Arthur de Sena Santos^§, Arthur Diesel Abbeg^|, Flora Roncolatto Ortiz^‡, Marco Antonio de Freitas^¶

‡ Instituto Butantan, Brazil§ Universidade de Brasília, Brazil| Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil¶ Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Brazil

Corresponding author: Rogério Bertani ( rogerio.bertani@butantan.gov.br )

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Citation: Bertani R, Ortiz F, Sena A, Abegg A, Antonio de Freitas M (2016) First record of the genus Psalmopoeus (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in Brazil. Check List 12(2): 1860. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.2.1860

Abstract

We present the first record for the genus Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895, in Brazil. A female of Psalmopoeus irminia Saager, 1994, was collected in Pacaraíma, state of Roraima, Brazil. This country now has records of all New World tarantula genera of the subfamily Aviculariinae.

Keywords

Amazon; Pacaraíma; Roraima; Tarantula