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Holothele

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Holothele
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Holothele
Karsch, 1879[1]
Type species
H. longipes
(L. Koch, 1875)
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]

Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.[4] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.[5]

Diagnosis

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They can be distinguished by the lack of urticating hairs, tarsus 4 being pseudo segmented. The tarsal claws own a row of teeth, and a labium with around 90 cuspules.[6]

Species

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As of July 2022 it contains six species, found in the West Indies and in the north of South America:[1]

In synonymy

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  • H. ludwigi (Strand, 1907) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. ravida (Simon, 1889) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. recta Karsch, 1879 = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. rondoni (Lucas & Bücherl, 1972) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. sanguiniceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)

Transferred to other genera

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Holothele Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  2. ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 152.
  3. ^ Rudloff, J.-P. (1997). "Revision der Gattung Holothele Karsch, 1879 nebst Aufstellung einer neuen Gattung Stichoplastoris gen. nov. (Araneae, Theraphosidae) und Wiedereinsetzung einiger weiterer Gattungen der Mygalomorphae". Arachnologisches Magazin. 5 (2): 10.
  4. ^ Karsch, F. (1879). "Arachnologische Beiträge". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 52: 534–562.
  5. ^ Raven, R. J. (1980). "The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata)". Journal of Arachnology. 8: 254.
  6. ^ Guadanucci, J. P. L.; Perafán L., Carlos A.; Valencia-Cuéllar, D. (2017). "The genus Holothele Karsch, 1879: the identity of the type species (Mygalomorphae, theraphosidae)". Zoosystema. 39 (2): 263–271. doi:10.5252/z2017n2a5. hdl:20.500.12008/22552. ISSN 1280-9551. S2CID 89960461.