Avicularia

Avicularia est genus aranearum familiae Theraphosidarum, cui sunt species tarantulae vulgo appellatae, in tropica America Australi endemicae. Nomen ex avicula formatum est, quia Aviculariae parvas aves edere putabantur. Genus ab Ioanne Baptista Lamarckio anno 1818 erectum est.

Avicularia avicularia feminea

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Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Arachnida 
Ordo : Araneae 
Familia : Theraphosidae 
Subfamilia : Aviculariinae 
Genus : Avicularia 
Lamarckius, 1818

   

Subdivisiones: Species

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Species

Hae species in World Spider Catalog (Indice aranearum orbis terrarum) referuntur:

• Avicularia affinis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chilia
• Avicularia ancylochira Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brasilia
• Avicularia arabica (Strand, 1908) – America Australis
• Avicularia aurantiaca Bauer, 1996 – Peruvia
• Avicularia avicularia (Linnaeus, 1758) (species typica) – a Costarica ad Brasiliam
• Avicularia aymara (Chamberlin, 1916) – Peruvia
• Avicularia azuraklaasi Tesmoingt, 1996 – Peruvia
• Avicularia bicegoi Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brasilia
• Avicularia braunshauseni Tesmoingt, 1999 – Brasilia
• Avicularia caesia (C. L. Koch, 1842) – Portus Dives
• Avicularia cuminami Mello-Leitão, 1930 – Brasilia
• Avicularia detrita (C. L. Koch, 1842) – Brasilia
• Avicularia diversipes (C. L. Koch, 1842) – Brasilia
• Avicularia doleschalli (Ausserer, 1871) – Brasilia
• Avicularia exilis Strand, 1907 – Surinamia
• Avicularia fasciculata Strand, 1907 – America Australis
• Avicularia gamba Bertani & Fukushima, 2009 – Brasilia
• Avicularia geroldi Tesmoingt, 1999 – Brasilia
• Avicularia glauca Simon, 1891 – Panama
• Avicularia gracilis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brasilia
• Avicularia hirschii Bullmer, Thierer-Lutz & Schmidt, 2006 – Aequatoria
• Avicularia hirsuta (Ausserer, 1875) – Cuba
• Avicularia holmbergi Thorell, 1890 – Guiana Francica
• Avicularia huriana Tesmoingt, 1996 – Aequatoria
• Avicularia juruensis Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brasilia
• Avicularia leporina (C. L. Koch, 1841) – Brasilia
• Avicularia metallica Ausserer, 1875 – Surinamia
• Avicularia minatrix Pocock, 1903 – Venetiola
• Avicularia nigrotaeniata Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Guiana
• Avicularia ochracea (Perty, 1833) – Brasilia
• Avicularia plantaris (C. L. Koch, 1842) – Brasilia
• Avicularia purpurea Kirk, 1990 – Aequatoria
• Avicularia rapax (Ausserer, 1875) – America Australis
• Avicularia rickwesti Bertani & Huff, 2013 – Res publica Dominicana
• Avicularia rufa Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945 – Brasilia
• Avicularia rutilans Ausserer, 1875 – Columbia
• Avicularia sooretama Bertani & Fukushima, 2009 – Brasilia
• Avicularia soratae Strand, 1907 – Bolivia
• Avicularia subvulpina Strand, 1906 – America Australis
• Avicularia Surinamiansis Strand, 1907 – Surinamia
• Avicularia taunayi (Mello-Leitão, 1920) – Brasilia
• Avicularia ulrichea Tesmoingt, 1996 – Brasilia
• Avicularia urticans Schmidt, 1994 – Peruvia
• Avicularia velutina Simon, 1889 – Venetiola
• Avicularia walckenaeri (Perty, 1833) – Brasilia

Pinacotheca

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  Avicularia urticans adultus.
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  Avicularia purpurea.

Notae