Revalidation and revision of the genus Magulla Simon 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae)
Author
Indicatti, Rafael P.
Author
Lucas, Sylvia M.
Author
Guadanucci, José P. L.
Author
Yamamoto, Flávio U.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1814
21
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182866
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182866
Plesiopelma insulare
(
Mello-Leitão 1923
)
Ceropelma insularis
Mello-Leitão 1923a
: 176
;
Bücherl 1957
: 389
, f. 28–28a; Schiapelli & Gerschman de
Pikelin 1970
: 229
, f. 1–5.
Magulla symmetrica
Bücherl 1949
: 264
–267, figs 1–2;
Lucas & Bücherl 1973
: 244
–245, fig. 7;
Platnick 2008
.
New synonymy
Plesiopelma insularis
:
Pérez-Miles
et al.
1996
: 55
, f. 38;
Bertani 2000
: 30
, f. 11–12;
Platnick 2008
.
Type
material:
Holotype
female, Ilhabela,
23°46'S
,
45°21'W
, São Paulo,
Brazil
deposited in
IBSP
3366, examined.
Additional material examined:
BRAZIL
.
São Paulo
:
1 female
, Ubatuba, (Ilha Vitória,
23°45'S
,
45°01'W
), Expedição Instituto Butantan
leg.
(
IBSP
3457); Ilhabela,
23°46'S
,
45°21'W
,
2 females
,
5.XI.1948
, H. Urban
leg.
(
IBSP
3365, 3456);
1 female
, São Sebastião,
24°06'S
,
45°42'W
(Ilha de Alcatrazes),
24.IX.2004
, R. Bertani
leg.
(
IBSP
11433);
1 female
, Itanhaém (Ilha da Queimada Grande,
24°29'S
,
46°40'W
),
II.2000
, R. Bertani
et al. leg.
(
IBSP
8363).
Distribution:
Known from Southern
Brazil
, in coastal regions and islands of the state of São Paulo.
Remarks:
Magulla symmetrica
is transferred to
Plesiopelma
as a junior synonym of
P. i n s u l a re
with which it shares the carapace with low caput, carapace and sternum longer than wide, numerous labial cuspules (more than 100), anterior metatarsi of females longer than tarsi, seminal receptacles not flat in lateral view and bearing granules, short urticating
type
III hairs.