Taxon details


Grammostola rosea (Walckenaer, 1837)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-04-20
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002024]
  • Distribution: Bolivia, Chile, Argentina
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); m (50233, survived the fire 2018) of Grammostola porteri (Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2022)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (258) (Pérez-Miles et al., 1996)
  • Neotype: Fundación núcleo aracnológico grado 36 (FNAG36), Chile; m (1071) (Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2022)
  • Syntype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; 2m 1f of Grammostola argentinensis
Taxonomic references
Mygale rosea Walckenaer, 1837: 213 (Dm).
Mygale rosea Guérin, 1838a: 165, pl. 48, f. 1 (m; material could not be found per Schmidt, 1996a: 17; Guérin mentioned authorship of Walckenaer, listed as seperate nomen dubium in the genus Euathlus with authorship of Guérin in former versions of the WSC) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054255].
Mygale rubiginosa Nicolet, 1849: 330 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057684].
Lasiodora rosea C. L. Koch, 1850: 73.
Eurypelma rosea Ausserer, 1871a: 215.
Phrixotrichus rubiginosa Simon, 1889a: 222 (T from Orthotrichus).
Eurypelma spatulatum F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897a: 24, pl. 1, f. 19 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057683].
Citharoscelus kochii F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899b: 16, pl. 2, f. 13-15 (f).
Citharoscelus kochii Pocock, 1899b: 348 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057685].
Grammostola spatulata Simon, 1903a: 935.
Citharoscelus spatulatus Pocock, 1903b: 98 (S of Citharoscelus kochi and Mygale rubiginosa).
Grammostola argentinense Strand, 1907l: 29 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057672].
Grammostola cala Chamberlin, 1917: 47, pl. 3, f. 8-9 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057675].
Lasiodora porteri Mello-Leitão, 1936d: 122, pl. 13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002022].
Grammostola spatulata Bücherl, 1951: 122 (S of Grammostola argentinensis).
Grammostola spatulata Bücherl, 1951: 123 (S of Grammostola cala; rejected by Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1961: 202).
Grammostola spatulata Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1961: 201, f. 7-8 (mf).
Grammostola cala Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1961: 202, f. 15 (m, removed from S of G. spatulata).
Grammostola spathulata Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1962b: 69, pl. I, f. 3-4 (mf).
Grammostola porteri Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1979: 295 (T from Lasiodora).
Grammostola spathulata Legendre & Calderón, 1984: 1029, pl. III, f. 1-10, pl. IV, f. 1-6 (mf).
Grammostola cala Legendre & Calderón, 1984: 1032, pl. V, f. 1-10 (m).
Grammostola cala Smith, 1986b: 62, f. 85h (m).
Grammostola spatulatus Smith, 1986b: 65, f. 98h (m).
Grammostola cala Smith, 1987d: 62, f. 85h (m).
Grammostola spatulatus Smith, 1987d: 65, f. 98h (m).
Grammostola spatulata Hancock & Hancock, 1989: 54, f. 49 (f).
Grammostola spatulata Smith, 1990b: 19, unnumbered f. (f).
Grammostola spatulata Schmidt, 1992e: 9, f. 2 (f).
Grammostola cala Schmidt, 1993d: 87, f. 211 (Df).
Grammostola spatulata Schmidt, 1993d: 90, f. 212 (f).
Grammostola argentinensis Schmidt, 1993d: 86, f. 215 (f).
Phryxotrichus roseus Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: 54, f. 35 (m).
Grammostola rosea Schmidt, 1996a: 17 (S of Grammostola spatulata).
Grammostola cala Schmidt, 1997g: 16, f. 59 (f).
Grammostola rosea Schmidt, 1997g: 16, f. 60, 63 (f).
Grammostola rosea Schmidt, 1998i: 6 (S of Grammostola cala).
Grammostola rosea Vol, 1999a: 11, f. I (f).
Grammostola cala Peters, 2000a: 132, f. 407-408 (mf).
Grammostola rosea Peters, 2000a: 138, f. 436-437 (mf).
Grammostola rosea Peters, 2003: 196, f. 793-794, 800-803 (mf).
Grammostola rosea Schmidt, 2003l: 167, f. 384, 256, f. 5 (f).
Grammostola rosea Peters, 2005a: 10, f. 7 (f).
Grammostola rosea Gabriel, 2011b: 26, f. 2-3 (f).
Grammostola rosea Gabriel, 2011c: 12, f. 2 (f).
Grammostola rosea Montes de Oca, D'Elía & Pérez-Miles, 2016: 328, f. 4F (m).
Grammostola rosea Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2019: 5806, f. 3a-f (mf).
Grammostola rosea Sherwood et al., 2021e: 141, f. 10-13 (f).
Grammostola rosea Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2022: 64, f. 1A-H (m, S of Grammostola porteri).
Grammostola rosea Cortés-Fossati & Martín-Rodríguez, 2022a: 756, f. 1A-C (m).
References

Aguilera, M. A., Montenegro Vargas, R. & Casanueva, M. E. (2019). Impact of disturbed areas on Theraphosidae spiders diversity (Araneae) and first population data of Grammostola rosea (Walckenaer) in Panul Park. Ecology and Evolution 9(10): 5802-5809. doi:10.1002/ece3.5163 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Aguilera, M. A., Montenegro Vargas, R. & Casanueva, M. E. (2022). Revised taxonomic placement and distribution update of Grammostola Simon, 1892, Phrixotrichus Simon, 1889 and Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 species, a chaotic history of Chilean tarantulas (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 40: 63-71. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ausserer, A. (1871a). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 117-224, pl. 1. [incl. unpubl. manuscript by Doleschall] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1951). Estudos sobre a biologia e a sistemática do género Grammostola Simon, 1892. Monografias, Instituto Butantan 1: 1-203. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61: 25-75. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Cortés-Fossati, F. & Martín-Rodríguez, I. (2022a). On the life expectancy of a male Chilean rose tarantula, Grammostola rosea (Walckenaer, 1837) (Araneae: Theraphosidae) reared in captivity. Revista Chilena de Entomología 48(4): 755-760. doi:10.35249/rche.48.4.22.09 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. (2011b). Beispiele von zusammengewachsenen Spermatheken bei Vogelspinnen (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Arachne 16(2): 24-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. (2011c). Nhandu carapoensis Lucas 1983 the senior synonym of Nhandu tripartitus Schmidt 1997 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 121: 11-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Guérin-Meneville, F. E. (1838a). Arachnides. In: Eydoux, J. F. T. & P. Gervais (eds.) Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine exécuté sur la corvette de l'Etat La Favorite pendant les années 1830\1831 et 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace capitaine de frégate. Paris vol. 5(Zoologie), 161-167, pl. 47-48. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hancock, K. & Hancock, J. (1989). Sex determination of immature theraphosid spiders from their cast skins. Published by the authors, Southminster, England, 61 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 5. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 77 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Legendre, R. & Calderón G., R. (1984). Liste systématique des araignées mygalomorphes du Chili. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 6(A): 1021-1065. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1936d). Etude sur les arachnides de Papudo et Constitucion (Chili), recueillis par le prof. Dr Carlos E. Porter. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 40: 112-129. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Montes de Oca, L., D'Elía, G. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2016). An integrative approach for species delimitation in the spider genus Grammostola (Theraphosidae, Mygalomorphae). Zoologica Scripta 45(3): 322-333. doi:10.1111/zsc.12152 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Nicolet, H. (1849). Aracnidos. In: Gay, C. (ed.) Historia física y política de Chile. Zoología 3, 319-543, pl. 1-5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.16172 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F., Lucas, S. M., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (1996). Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Mygalomorph 1: 33-68. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2000a). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 1. Published by the author, 148 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2003). Tarantulas of the world: Amerika's Vogelspinnen. Published by the author, Wegberg, Germany, 328 pp. [Longhorn & Gabriel, 2019: 109: "We consider much of the information in Peters (2003) as erroneous"] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2005a). Innereien. Tarantulas of the World 110: 7-14. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1897a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 1-40, pl. 1-3. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1899b). On some spiders from Chili and Peru collected by Dr. Plate of Berlin. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 27(173): 15-22, pl. 2. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1899.tb00246.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1899b). A new stridulating theraphosid spider from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 3(16): 347-349. doi:10.1080/00222939908678129 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1903b). On some genera and species of South-American Aviculariidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11(61): 81-115. doi:10.1080/00222930308678729 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1979). Las arañas de la subfamilia Theraphosinae (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 5: 287-300. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1961). Las especies del género Grammostola Simon 1892, en la República Argentina (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Actas y Trabajos del Congreso Sudamericano de Zoologia, La Plata I (La Plata, 1959) 3, 199-208. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1962b). Importancia de las espermatecas en la sistemática de las arañas del suborden Mygalomorphae (Araneae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23: 69-75. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1992e). Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Phrixotrichus Simon 1888 (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arachnologischer Anzeiger 3(12): 9-12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1996a). Die Typusart von Phrixotrichus Simon, 1888 (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 4(9): 14-18. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1997g). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1998i). Die chilenischen Vogelspinnen der Gattungen Grammostola Simon, 1892, Paraphysa Simon, 1892, Euathlus Ausserer, 1875 und Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) mit Beschreibung einer neuen Thrixoplema-Spezies. Arthropoda 6(1): 3-10. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2021e). An anomalous spermathecae resolved after moulting events in a female of Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 with a review of spermathecal anomalies in theraphosid spiders (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 139-143. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1889a). Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXX. Descriptions de quelques arachnides du Chili et remarques synonymiques sur quelques unes des espèces décrites par Nicolet. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 8: 217-222. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1986b). The tarantula: classification and identification guide. Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 179 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1987d). The tarantula: classification and identification guide (second ed.). Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 179 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1990b). Taxonomic differences between the closely related species Grammostola spatulata Cambridge 1897 and Grammostola cala Chamberlin 1917 from Chile. British Tarantula Society Journal 6(1): 19-21. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907l). Aviculariidae und Atypidae des Kgl. Naturalienkabinetts in Stuttgart. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 63: 1-100. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vol, F. (1999a). A propos d'une spermatheque inhabituelle. Arachnides 42: 1-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-12-06 New taxonomic reference entry Cortés-Fossati & Martín-Rodríguez, 2022a n/a
2022-07-01 New taxonomic reference entry Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2022 n/a
2022-07-01 Species synonymy Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2022 Grammostola porteri synonymized with Grammostola rosea
2022-01-10 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2021e n/a
2021-04-23 New taxonomic reference entry Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2019 n/a
2016-09-23 New taxonomic reference entry Montes de Oca, D'Elía & Pérez-Miles, 2016 n/a