Plesiopelma insulare ( Mello-Leitão 1923 ), Mello-Leitao, 1923

Indicatti, Rafael P., Lucas, Sylvia M., Guadanucci, José P. L. & Yamamoto, Flávio U., 2008, Revalidation and revision of the genus Magulla Simon 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), Zootaxa 1814, pp. 21-36 : 34

Plesiopelma insulare ( Mello-Leitão 1923)

Ceropelma insularis Mello-Leitão 1923a: 176 ; Bücherl 1957: 389, f. 28–28a; Schiapelli & Gerschman de Pikelin 1970: 229, f. 1–5.

Magulla symmetrica Bücherl 1949: 264 –267, figs 1–2; Lucas & Bücherl 1973: 244 –245, fig. 7; Platnick 2008. New synonymy

Plesiopelma insularis: Pérez-Miles et al. 1996: 55 , f. 38; Bertani 2000: 30, f. 11–12; Platnick 2008.

Type material: Holotype female, Ilhabela, 23°46'S, 45°21'W, São Paulo, Brazil deposited in IBSP 3366, examined.

Additional material examined: BRAZIL. São Paulo: 1 female, Ubatuba, (Ilha Vitória, 23°45'S, 45°01'W), Expedição Instituto Butantan leg. ( IBSP 3457); Ilhabela, 23°46'S, 45°21'W, 2 females, 5.XI.1948, H. Urban leg. ( IBSP 3365, 3456); 1 female, São Sebastião, 24°06'S, 45°42'W (Ilha de Alcatrazes), 24.IX.2004, R. Bertani leg. ( IBSP 11433); 1 female, Itanhaém (Ilha da Queimada Grande, 24°29'S, 46°40'W), II.2000, R. Bertani et al. leg. ( IBSP 8363).

Distribution: Known from Southern Brazil, in coastal regions and islands of the state of São Paulo.

Remarks: Magulla symmetrica is transferred to Plesiopelma as a junior synonym of P. i n s u l a re with which it shares the carapace with low caput, carapace and sternum longer than wide, numerous labial cuspules (more than 100), anterior metatarsi of females longer than tarsi, seminal receptacles not flat in lateral view and bearing granules, short urticating type III hairs.