Amazonius germani

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Amazonius germani
Tapinauchenius gigas - young female.jpg
Young female (initially misidentified as Tapinauchenius gigas, a synonym of Tapinauchenius plumipes )
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Amazonius
Species:
A. germani
Binomial name
Amazonius germani
Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022 [1]

Amazonius germani is a species of spider in the tarantula family Theraphosidae, found in French Guiana and Brazil. [1]

Taxonomy

In 1994, Günter Schmidt described a spider from French Guiana he identified as Tapinauchenius gigas (a synonym of Tapinauchenius plumipes ). His identification was then followed by other arachnologists. However, it is now considered that Schmidt misidentified this spider, which was described as the new species Amazonius germani in 2022. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Taxon details Amazonius germani Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2025-08-30
  2. ↑ Cifuentes, Y. & Bertani, R. (2022), "Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the tarantula genera Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871, Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1985, and Amazonius n. gen. (Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae)", Zootaxa, 5101 (1): 1–123, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5101.1.1, hdl: 11449/218826


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