This species is 45% complete

Pterinopelma sazimai Bertani, Nagahama & Fukushima, 2011

Brazil ♂♀

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Taxonomy and History

Scientific Name : Pterinopelma sazimai

Described By: Bertani, Nagahama & Fukushima, 2011
Researcher Profile: Rogério Bertani, Roberto Hiroaki Nagahama, Caroline Sayuri Fukushima
Genus: Pterinopelma
Etymology: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Ivan Sazima, an important Brazilian zoologist who was the first researcher to collect exemplars of this species in the decades of 1970 and 1980. These specimens remained as the sole exemplars of the species
Common Name: Iridescent Blue Tarantula
Original Type Locality: Brazil, state of Bahia, Andaraí, Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina (S12°46'9.21'' W41°28'6.79'')

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Revalidation of Pterinopelma Pocock 1901 with description of a new species and the female of Pterinopelma vitiosum (Keyserling 1891) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)

Rogério Bertani, Roberto Hiroaki Nagahama, Caroline Sayuri Fukushima ,2011
We revalidate the theraphosid genus Pterinopelma Pocock 1901, describe the female of P. vitiosum for first time and Pterinopelma sazimai sp. nov. from Brazil. These two species were included in a matrix with 35 characters and 32 taxa and were analyzed both with all characters having same weight and with implied weights. Searches considering all characters non-additive or some additive were also carried out. The preferred tree, obtained with implied weights, concavity 6 and all characters non-additive shows that Pterinopelma is a monophyletic genus sister to the clade Lasiodora (Vitalius + Nhandu). The presence of denticles on the prolateral inferior male palpal bulb keel is a synapomorphy of the genus.
Zootaxa 2814: 1-18
- Pterinopelma sazimai

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