Holothele

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]

Holothele
Holothele incei
Scientific classification
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

5, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of March 2020 it contains five species, found in the West Indies and northern South America:[1]

In synonymy:

  • 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)

See also

References

  1. 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.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.