Brachypelma aureoceps
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Brachypelma aureoceps is a species of tarantula that was discovered in the American Dry Tortugas National Park .
Joseph Bassett Holder was then a senior surgeon of the military prison Fort Jefferson on Garden Key , an island belonging to the Dry Tortugas to the Florida Keys belongs. He discovered the spider in the first half of the 1860s. It later turned out that it was a species of tarantula of the genus Brachypelma . All species of this genus occur in Mexico or in more southern areas. It is therefore very likely that the species was introduced on this island.
The species was first described in 1917 by Ralph Vary Chamberlin , who rediscovered the type specimen collected at that time in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University . Chamberlin named the new species Eurypelma aureoceps , later it was placed in the genus Brachypelma .
features
The type specimen, a female tarantula, is 4.4 centimeters long and has many characteristics of Mexican Brachypelma species. The sperm library is slightly indented in the middle and does not have a straight base.
Web links
Brachypelma aureoceps in the World Spider Catalog
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Heinz-Josef Peters: Tarantulas of the World: America's tarantulas. Self-published, Wegberg 2003, ISBN 3-933443-06-7 , p. 113.