Aphonopelma caniceps

Aphonopelma caniceps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Aphonopelma
Species:	A. caniceps
Binomial name
Aphonopelma caniceps (Simon, 1891)[1]

Aphonopelma caniceps is a species of spider in the family Theraphosidae, found in Mexico.[1] This species was first described as Eurypelma caniceps in 1891 by Eugène Simon,[2][3] and was transferred to the genus, Aphonopelma, in 1993 by Günter Schmidt.[4]

References

1. Hamilton, C.A.; Hendrixson, B.E. & Bond, J.E. (2016), "Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States", ZooKeys (560): 1–340, Bibcode:2016ZooK..560....1H, doi:10.3897/zookeys.560.6264, PMC 4768370, PMID 27006611
2. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog: Aphonopelma caniceps". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
3. Simon, E. (1891). "Liste des Aviculariides qui habitent le Mexique et l'Amérique centrale". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux (in French). 44: 336. ISSN 0365-6934. Wikidata Q106252142.
4. Schmidt, G. (1993). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp.