This species is 55% complete

Psalmopoeus cambridgei Pocock, 1895

Trinidad ♂♀

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Psalmopoeus cambridgei

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Taxonomy and History

Scientific Name : Psalmopoeus Cambridgei

Described By: Pocock, 1895
Researcher Profile: Reginald Innes Pocock
Genus: Psalmopoeus
Etymology: In honorem amici mei, F. 0. P. Cambridge.
Common Name: Trinidad Chevron, Chevron
Original Type Locality: East Indies possibly Pinang

- Psalmopoeus cambridgii Pocock, 1895
- Santaremia longipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei Smith, 1987
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei Hancock & Hancock, 1989
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei Saager, 1994
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei Tansley, 1997
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei Peters, 2000
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei Peters, 2003
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei Schmidt, 2003
- Psalmopoeus cambridgei Schmidt, Bullmer & Thierer-Lutz, 2006

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Psalmopoeus cambridgei

♂ (CNANAr003615), Trinidad

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On a new and natural grouping of some of the Oriental genera of Mygalomorphae, with descriptions of new genera and species.

Reginald Innes Pocock ,1895

Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 15: 165-184.
- Citharognathus hosei, Poecilotheria vittata, Poecilotheria striata, Poecilotheria subfusca, Chilobrachys andersoni, Chilobrachys bicolor, Chilobrachys fumosus, Chilobrachys hardwicki, Coremiocnemis valida, Phormingochilus everetti, Lyrognathus crotalus, Phormingochilus tigrinus, Psalmopoeus cambridgei, Selenotypus plumipes

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