Check List 14(4): 647-650, doi: 10.15560/14.4.647
First record of Theraphosa apophysis (Tinter, 1991) (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) in Brazil
expand article infoMarlus Queiroz Almeida ‡, Lidianne Salvatierra§, José Wellington de Morais‡
‡ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados do Solo, Manaus , Brazil§ Universidade Estadual de Roraima, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Manaus, Brazil

Corresponding author: Marlus Queiroz Almeida ( marlusqazoo@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Gustavo Silva de Miranda
© 2018 Marlus Queiroz Almeida , Lidianne Salvatierra, José Wellington de Morais.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Almeida MQ, Salvatierra L, Morais JW (2018) First record of Theraphosa apophysis (Tinter, 1991) (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) in Brazil. Check List 14(4): 647-650. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.4.647
Open Access
Abstract

We present the first record for Theraphosa apophysis (Tinter, 1991) for Brazil. A male of T. apophysis was collected in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas state, Brazil. This is the third species of Theraphosa in Brazil along with T. blondi (Latreille, 1804) and T. stirmi Rudloff & Weinmann, 2010.

Keywords
Amazonas; distribution; rainforest; spider; tarantula