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<mods:title>Revised generic placement of Brachypelmaembrithes (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) and Brachypelmaangustum Valerio, 1980, with definition of the taxonomic features for identification of female Sericopelma Ausserer, 1875 (Araneae, Theraphosidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2015</mods:date>
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<mods:number>526</mods:number>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152062684" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:9D2C1E935AD2EAFC151ABA1664D095E2" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/9D2C1E935AD2EAFC151ABA1664D095E2" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="83" pageId="7" pageNumber="82">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="7" pageNumber="82" start="start">Taxon</pageBreakToken>
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classification Animalia Araneae Theraphosidae
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="82" type="nomenclature">
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<taxonomicName authority="F. O. P. - Cambridge, 1897" authorityName="F. O. P. - Cambridge" authorityYear="1897" class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commue" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commue">Sericopelma commue F.O.P.-Cambridge, 1897</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="82">
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma communis" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="communis">Sericopelma communis</taxonomicName>
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F.O.P-Cambridge: 15 (D male).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="82">
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commune" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commune">Sericopelma commune</taxonomicName>
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Smith, 1991b: 18 (f), here considered misplaced in this species.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="82" type="type">
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="82">Type.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="82">Male (3 male syntypes, BMNH 1898-12-24-19-21, male syntype OUMNH O.P.-Cambridge Coll. Jar 106):</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="83" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" type="remarks">
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="82">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="83" pageId="7" pageNumber="82">
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<bibRefCitation author="Smith, AM" journalOrPublisher="Journal of the British Tarantula Society" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" pagination="15 - 23" title="Discussion paper: Euathlusmesomelas Cambridge 1892." volume="7" year="1991 b">Smith (1991b)</bibRefCitation>
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refers to three of four male syntypes from
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Chiriquí">Chiriqui</normalizedToken>
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as
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commune" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commune">Sericopelma commune</taxonomicName>
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, specifically BMNH 1898-12-24-19-21 (i.e. accessioned 24th-Dec-1898, coded
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘19-21’">'19-21'</normalizedToken>
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), then described a female, saying "Female BMNH 98-12-24-22. Assigned to the species by Valerio". The only female BMNH specimen with this accession has the oldest label "Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, Pozo Azul de
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Pirrís">Pirris</normalizedToken>
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,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="José">Jose</normalizedToken>
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C.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Zeldón”">Zeldon"</normalizedToken>
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, naming a collector from the 1890s. A later label "
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma immensa" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="immensa">Sericopelma immensa</taxonomicName>
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n. sp. Det. C. E. Valerio, Jan 10, 1979" matches his paper (
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<bibRefCitation author="Valerio, CE" journalOrPublisher="Brenesia" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" pagination="259 - 28" title="Aranas terafosidas de Costa Rica Araneae, Theraphosidae. I. Sericopelma y Brachypelma." volume="18" year="1980">Valerio 1980</bibRefCitation>
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) referring to a BMNH specimen from this same locality as
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma immensum" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="immensum">Sericopelma immensum</taxonomicName>
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. However, the species on the Valerio label has been physically scored out, but likely reads
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<taxonomicName lsidName="immensa" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" rank="species" species="immensa">immensa</taxonomicName>
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. Another pen-written label says "
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commune" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commune">Sericopelma commune</taxonomicName>
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F.O
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Pick–Cambr.”">Pick-Cambr."</normalizedToken>
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(in handwriting of curator Doug Clark, died 1972), apparently present when both Valerio and Smith examined the specimen. We suspect this label misled
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<bibRefCitation author="Smith, AM" journalOrPublisher="Journal of the British Tarantula Society" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" pagination="15 - 23" title="Discussion paper: Euathlusmesomelas Cambridge 1892." volume="7" year="1991 b">Smith (1991b)</bibRefCitation>
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to reconsider the specimen as the un-described female
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commune" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commune">Sericopelma commune</taxonomicName>
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, even though collected at a Costa Rican locality (Parrita
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Cantón">Canton</normalizedToken>
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, Puntarenas), approx. 250 km from the
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Chiriquí">Chiriqui</normalizedToken>
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type site. However Smith only records the distribution (indicating both sexes) from
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Chiriquí">Chiriqui</normalizedToken>
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, Panama. Further confusion occurs with another mature male in BMNH with an old pencil-written label
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<normalizedToken originalValue="“Panama”">"Panama"</normalizedToken>
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, then two pen labels in
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Clark’s">Clark's</normalizedToken>
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handwriting, "
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commune" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commune">Sericopelma commune</taxonomicName>
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PDA Costa Rica BMNH 1898-12-24-22" and "
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commune" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commune">Sericopelma commune</taxonomicName>
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det. Clark 1960". We suspect these latter labels were an attempt by Clark to wrongly allocate this
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<normalizedToken originalValue="“Panama”">"Panama"</normalizedToken>
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male to both the Pozo Azul de
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Pirrís">Pirris</normalizedToken>
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accession, and as a
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘missing’">'missing'</normalizedToken>
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fourth male syntype of
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commune" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commune">Sericopelma commune</taxonomicName>
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. Clark perhaps did not realise that fourth male is in the Pickard-Cambridge collection at OUMNH, where a male labelled
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘syntype’">'syntype'</normalizedToken>
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had the unequivocal label "
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma communis" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="communis">Sericopelma communis</taxonomicName>
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Fopc Chiriqui - Champion". In a BMNH accessions book, 1898-12-24-22 corresponds to "
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Sericopelma</taxonomicName>
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sp? Pozo Azul de
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Pirrís">Pirris</normalizedToken>
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(Costa Rica). Pres. by F.D. Godman, Esq., Costa Rica Mus, F.O.P.-Cambridge". However, although F.O. Pickard-Cambridge apparently recognised it as a possible female
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Sericopelma</taxonomicName>
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sp, the lack of accounts before
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<bibRefCitation author="Valerio, CE" journalOrPublisher="Brenesia" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" pagination="259 - 28" title="Aranas terafosidas de Costa Rica Araneae, Theraphosidae. I. Sericopelma y Brachypelma." volume="18" year="1980">Valerio (1980)</bibRefCitation>
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indicate it was ignored,
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<pageBreakToken pageId="8" pageNumber="83" start="start">perhaps</pageBreakToken>
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due to uncertainty about matching it with known males. We consider this female to be the same listed by both
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<bibRefCitation author="Valerio, CE" journalOrPublisher="Brenesia" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" pagination="259 - 28" title="Aranas terafosidas de Costa Rica Araneae, Theraphosidae. I. Sericopelma y Brachypelma." volume="18" year="1980">Valerio (1980)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<bibRefCitation author="Smith, AM" journalOrPublisher="Journal of the British Tarantula Society" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" pagination="15 - 23" title="Discussion paper: Euathlusmesomelas Cambridge 1892." volume="7" year="1991 b">Smith (1991b)</bibRefCitation>
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and suggest its unsecure designation as the first described female of
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theraphosidae" genus="Sericopelma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Sericopelma commune" order="Araneae" pageId="8" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="commune">Sericopelma commune</taxonomicName>
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be suspended, instead to favour topotypic specimens from
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Chiriquí">Chiriqui</normalizedToken>
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, such as the region of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Volcán">Volcan</normalizedToken>
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where G. Champion likely collected the four male syntypes.
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="83">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="83">
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Only known from type locality,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Chiriquí">Chiriqui</normalizedToken>
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=
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Chiriquí">Chiriqui</normalizedToken>
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, Provincia de
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Chiriquí">Chiriqui</normalizedToken>
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,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="República">Republica</normalizedToken>
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de
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Panamá">Panama</normalizedToken>
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.
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