Avicularia
Avicularia est genus aranearum familiae Theraphosidarum, cui sunt species tarantulae vulgo appellatae, in tropica America Australi endemicae. Nomen ex avicula formatum est, quia Aviculariae parvas aves edere putabantur. Genus ab Ioanne Baptista Lamarckio anno 1818 erectum est.

Species
Hae species in World Spider Catalog (Indice aranearum orbis terrarum) referuntur:

Avicularia affinis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chilia
Avicularia ancylochira Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brasilia
Avicularia arabica (Strand, 1908) – America Australis
Avicularia aurantiaca Bauer, 1996 – Peruvia
Avicularia avicularia (Linnaeus, 1758) (species typica) – a Costarica ad Brasiliam
Avicularia aymara (Chamberlin, 1916) – Peruvia
Avicularia azuraklaasi Tesmoingt, 1996 – Peruvia
Avicularia bicegoi Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brasilia
Avicularia braunshauseni Tesmoingt, 1999 – Brasilia
Avicularia caesia (C. L. Koch, 1842) – Portus Dives
Avicularia cuminami Mello-Leitão, 1930 – Brasilia
Avicularia detrita (C. L. Koch, 1842) – Brasilia
Avicularia diversipes (C. L. Koch, 1842) – Brasilia
Avicularia doleschalli (Ausserer, 1871) – Brasilia
Avicularia exilis Strand, 1907 – Surinamia
Avicularia fasciculata Strand, 1907 – America Australis
Avicularia gamba Bertani & Fukushima, 2009 – Brasilia
Avicularia geroldi Tesmoingt, 1999 – Brasilia
Avicularia glauca Simon, 1891 – Panama
Avicularia gracilis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brasilia
Avicularia hirschii Bullmer, Thierer-Lutz & Schmidt, 2006 – Aequatoria
Avicularia hirsuta (Ausserer, 1875) – Cuba
Avicularia holmbergi Thorell, 1890 – Guiana Francica
Avicularia huriana Tesmoingt, 1996 – Aequatoria
Avicularia juruensis Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brasilia
Avicularia leporina (C. L. Koch, 1841) – Brasilia
Avicularia metallica Ausserer, 1875 – Surinamia
Avicularia minatrix Pocock, 1903 – Venetiola
Avicularia nigrotaeniata Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Guiana
Avicularia ochracea (Perty, 1833) – Brasilia
Avicularia plantaris (C. L. Koch, 1842) – Brasilia
Avicularia purpurea Kirk, 1990 – Aequatoria
Avicularia rapax (Ausserer, 1875) – America Australis
Avicularia rickwesti Bertani & Huff, 2013 – Res publica Dominicana
Avicularia rufa Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945 – Brasilia
Avicularia rutilans Ausserer, 1875 – Columbia
Avicularia sooretama Bertani & Fukushima, 2009 – Brasilia
Avicularia soratae Strand, 1907 – Bolivia
Avicularia subvulpina Strand, 1906 – America Australis
Avicularia Surinamiansis Strand, 1907 – Surinamia
Avicularia taunayi (Mello-Leitão, 1920) – Brasilia
Avicularia ulrichea Tesmoingt, 1996 – Brasilia
Avicularia urticans Schmidt, 1994 – Peruvia
Avicularia velutina Simon, 1889 – Venetiola
Avicularia walckenaeri (Perty, 1833) – Brasilia

Pinacotheca

Notae 

Animalia dilecta
Araneae Americae Australis
Arthropoda Americae Australis
Fauna Panamae
Fauna Trinitatis et Tabaci
Genera animalium
Theraphosidae
Taxa Lamarck
Taxa 1818