Aphonopelma clarki Smith, 1995

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 14

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scientific name	Aphonopelma clarki Smith, 1995
status

Treatment

Aphonopelma clarki Breene et al. 1996: 18, 23; Jackman 1997: 160; Smith 1995: 87, mf, desc. (figs 211-230)

Distribution.

Dallas

Time of activity.

Female (January)

Type.

Texas (female, Dallas Co., Dallas, January 25, 1959, H. J. Berman, holotype, BMNH)

Etymology.

Person (Named after the late Douglas John Clark, curator of arachnology, BMNH, [1931-1971] who died at the tragically young age of 41. A theraphosid enthusiast, he had many live tarantulas in his office. Over the years, as I have worked through the specimen jars, one by one, I have often found him there before me, Smith 1995)