Aphonopelma serratum

Aphonopelma serratum is a species of spider in the family Theraphosidae,[1] found in Mexico.[2] This species was first described as Eurypelma serratum in 1891 by Eugène Simon,[1][2] and was transferred to the genus, Aphonopelma, in 1993 by Günter Schmidt.[3]

Aphonopelma serratum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Aphonopelma
Species:
A. serratum
Binomial name
Aphonopelma serratum
(Simon, 1891)[1]

Alvarez (2014) comments that A. serratum can be difficult to distinguish from A. anitahoffmannae since they both have similar colouring.[4]

References

  1. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Aphonopelma serratum". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  2. Simon, E. (1891). "Liste des Aviculariides qui habitent le Mexique et l'Amérique centrale". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux (in French). 44: 336. ISSN 0365-6934. Wikidata Q106252142.
  3. Schmidt, G. (1993). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp.
  4. Julio C. Estrada Alvárez (2014). "ARANEAE: New data from mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) of Estado de Mexico, with taxonomic comments about the genus Davus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892". Dugesiana (in Spanish). 21 (1): 55–66. ISSN 1405-4094. Wikidata Q106268939. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020.


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