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		<title>Distribution of Tarantulas in Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A total of 14 tarantula species have been described as occurring in Arizona. The published descriptions of most species are inadequate, making species-level identifications of specimens exceedingly difficult. As a result, the validity of most Aphonopelma species in Arizona is very much in question. The Aphonopelma fauna of Arizona, along with that of several other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=324&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tarantulas in the Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below are a few PDFs I developed for elementary age kids during the Arkansas Tarantula Survey in 2004.  Anatomy of the Texas brown tarantula (PDF) Texas brown tarantula coloring sheet (PDF) Tarantula burrow coloring sheet (PDF) Tarantula distribution and taxonomy (PDF)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=298&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tarantulas and Citizen-Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My interest in native tarantulas first began back in 2003 while working for the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission. While there, I came across a copy of Margaret Janowski-Bell’s dissertation (Janowski-Bell, 2001) which dealt with the distribution and ecology of Aphonopelma hentzi in Missouri.  One chapter of her dissertation detailed a state-wide citizen-science survey she developed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=289&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distribution of Tarantulas in the United States</title>
		<link>http://aphonopelma.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/state-level-distribution-of-tarantulas-in-the-united-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A total of 12 states in the United States contain published records of Aphonopelma species.  The eastern limit for Aphonopelma in this country is the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.  Some non-native tarantula species have been introduced into Florida.  No Aphonopelma species naturally occurs east of the Mississippi River.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=274&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distribution of Tarantulas in Utah</title>
		<link>http://aphonopelma.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/distribution-of-tarantulas-in-utah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three tarantulas species are currently listed as occurring in Utah, Aphonpelma iodius, A. mojave, and A. zionis. Aphonopelma angusi and A. melanium were described from the state but were treated as synonyms of A. iodius by Prentice (1997).  The Aphonopelma fauna of Utah, along with that of several other southwestern states, has received very little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=268&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distribution of Tarantulas in Texas II</title>
		<link>http://aphonopelma.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/distribution-of-tarantulas-in-texas-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A total of 15 Aphonopelma species have been listed as occurring in Texas.  Given the size of the state, I am splitting it up into eastern and western halves to map published species records.  Eleven of these 15 species were treated in Distribution of Tarantulas in Texas I.  Please keep in mind that most of the Aphonopelma [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=254&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distribution of Tarantulas in California</title>
		<link>http://aphonopelma.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/distribution-of-tarantulas-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; A total of 18 Aphonopelma species have been listed as occurring in California.  County records were taken from Chamberlin (1940), Smith (1995), and Prentice (1997).  I removed the northern portion of the state as that area possesses no published Aphonopelma records. Most all of these species were described from very few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=220&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aphonopelma odelli</title>
		<link>http://aphonopelma.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/aphonopelma-odelli-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smith (1995) described Aphonopelma odelli from a single female collected at Beavers Bend State Park in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.  A second Oklahoma specimen was also taken from “Robbers State Park” or more correctly, Robbers Cave State Park, in Latimer County.  No males were described.  The distribution of A. odelli, per Smith (1995), is “centred on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=209&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distribution of Tarantulas in Texas I</title>
		<link>http://aphonopelma.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/distribution-of-tarantulas-in-eastern-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A total of 15 Aphonopelma species have been listed as occurring in Texas.  Given the size of the state, I am splitting it up into eastern and western halves to map published species records.  Please keep in mind that most of the Aphonopelma species known from the state are probably not valid taxa given the very inadequate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=186&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distribution of Tarantulas in Oklahoma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael D. Warriner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Aphonopelma species have been described from Oklahoma, A. hentzi, A. odelli, and A. wichitanum.  The type localities for all three species are located in that state. Blue dots in the map above represent county records for A. hentzi cited by Smith (1995) including the neotype and paratype from Garfield County that author designated for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphonopelma.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15174908&#038;post=173&#038;subd=aphonopelma&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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