Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Theraphosidae

Sericopelma panamanum (Karsch, 1880) stat. rev.

Theraphosa panamana Karsch, 1880: 84 (D male).

Sericopelma panamana F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897a: 16.

Sericopelma rubronitens Simon, 1892: 159 (S, here considered misplaced in this species).

Type.

Male (1 male holotype, ZMB 2394 BERLIN):

Remarks.

Simon (1892) makes no clear justification why Karsh’s Theraphosa panamana from Chiriquí should be synonymous with Sericopelma rubronitens, only referring to similarities in eye pattern and absence of tibial spurs in Karsh’s description against another non-type male specimen in the Paris collection, which he had assigned as Sericopelma rubronitens . Our re-examination of the type specimen confirmed its designation as a Sericopelma sp., but not its synonymy with Sericopelma rubronitens, which is here reversed.

Distribution.

Only known from type locality, Chiriquí = Chiriquí, Provincia de Chiriquí, República de Panamá .