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S: Bioone – https://bioone.org/journals/The-Journal-of-Arachnology/volume-40/issue-1/A11-69.1/The-species-referred-to-as-Eurypelma-californicum-Theraphosidae-in-more/10.1636/A11-69.1.short (last access: 30 August 2024); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5345366/ (last access: 30 August 2024).

N: 1. mig’a-l[=e], n. an American tarantula or bird-catching spider. [Gr. mygal[=e], a field-mouse.]

taxonomic synonym of AVICULARIA.
Latin, from Greek mygalē. New Latin, from Latin, shrewmouse.

The name of “tarantula” also was popularly applied to other great hairy spiders, especially the genus Mygale (by 1794), native to the warmer regions of the Americas.

2. Definition of “mygale” from 1908 – Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language; 1913 – Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary; 2010 – New Age Dictionary Database:

A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).

3. Taxonoym of Mygale avicularia:

Kingdom

Animalia
Phylum

Arthropoda
Class

Arachnida
Order

Araneae
Family

Theraphosidae
Genus

Avicularia Lamarck, 1818
Species
Mygale avicularia (Linnaeus, 1758).

4. No results as “mygale” in English (Termium Plus).

– Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions: trap-door spider.

French equivalents: mygale, cténize, mygale maçonne.
Spanish equivalent: migala Cteniza sauvagesi, araña trampilla.

5. Only one result as “mygale du Mexique” in French (Le Grand dictionnaire terminologique).

– Zoology > Arachnology > Acarology: red-kneed tarantula.

French equivalent: mygale du Mexique.
Spanish equivalent: tarántula de anillos rojos, tarántula de rodillas rojas o tarántula de Smith (Brachypelma smithi).

6. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention the novel Mygale written by Thierry Jonquet. Mygale is a crime sci-fi thriller novel, first published in France by Editions Gallimard in 1984, and then in the United States in 2003 by City Lights. Its English translation was also published by Serpent’s Tail in the United Kingdom and North America in 2005 as Tarantula, and it has also been released under the title The Skin I Live In, the title of Pedro Almodóvar’s film of the same name, which was inspired by the novel.

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CR: arachnid, arachnophobia, spider, tarantula.