Critically Endangered
Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica
Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica
Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica is a spider in the family Theraphosidae (order Araneae), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The ground color of the first pair of legs is daffodil yellow. The patella is daffodil yellow with a thin black band distally. The tibia also daffodil yellow with a thick black transverse band.
Range and habitat
It was initially thought to be endemic to the Ramanathapuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, but has since been identified outside India in the Mannar District of Northern Sri Lanka. The close proximity of Mannar island to India suggests that the species may have dispersed over the land bridge between the two countries in the Pleistocene epoch.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica, Wikidata item Q2193916. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
