Tarantulas of the USA with a Focus on the Sky Islands of Arizona and New Species - Michael Jacobi

Описание: A Michael Jacobi Presentation (www.mjacobi.com, @jacobipix)

Tarantulas of the USA with a Focus on the Sky Islands of Arizona and New Species

This is a studio-recorded version (produced on April 1, 2020) of the live after-dinner presentation I delivered at the 18th Annual British Tarantula Society Lectures & Dinner on March 14, 2020. It presents an overview of all 29 current species of US Aphonopelma tarantulas and introduces for the first time what will be the 30th species. It also shows a few spiders found in newly sampled mountain ranges that also may be new species. The emphasis is the Madrean Sky Islands of Arizona, explaining the concept and the eight biomes found with increasing elevation while presenting the Marxi-group or Sky Islands Diversity group of Aphonopelma in detail. The six current US Marxi-group theraphosid spiders are A. marxi, A. catalina, A. chiricahua, A. madera, A. peloncillo, and A. vorhiesi, but I also give a sneak peek at what will be the seventh when it is described later this year.

Presenting fieldwork I undertook both alone, and in the company of Dr. Brent Hendrixson and others, I also show some new spiders that Brent found along with his colleague and friend Dr. Chris Hamilton. In addition to depicting all known American tarantulas and some new ones, I share some of my other wildlife and landscape photography.

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— Aphonopelma marxi 21-min documentary:    • Aphonopelma marxi: Gorgeous American taran...  

— Theraphosa blondi 16-min documentary with Guy Tansley:    • Finding the Goliath Tarantula in the Wild  

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// THE 2016 APHONOPELMA REVISION //

“CHRIS & BRENT’S REVISION,” which is correctly known as:
Hamilton CA, Hendrixson BE, Bond JE (2016) Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States. ZooKeys 560: 1-340. 
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.560.6264
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles....

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BRENT HENDRIXSON ON INSTAGRAM: @behendrixson

ANDREW SMITH’S LOVE TARANTULAS: https://www.lovetarantulas.com/

GUY TANSLEY’S BUGSNSTUFF: https://www.bugsnstuff.com/

GUY TANSLEY’S GIANTSPIDERS: https://www.giantspiders.com/

PAUL CARPENTER’S LIFE IN THE RAINFOREST: https://www.lifeintherainforest.co.uk/

RAY HALE’S NATURALLY WILD COMPANY: http://www.thenaturallywildcompany.co...

SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: https://skyislandalliance.org/

FRIENDS OF CAVE CREEK CANYON: http://www.friendsofcavecreekcanyon.com/