Plesiopelma

Plesiopelma is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[3]

Plesiopelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Plesiopelma
Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
P. myodes
Pocock, 1901
Species

11, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of May 2020 it contains eleven species, found in Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina:[1]

  • Plesiopelma aspidosperma Ferretti & Barneche, 2013Argentina
  • Plesiopelma gertschi (Caporiacco, 1955)Venezuela
  • Plesiopelma imperatrix Piza, 1976Brazil
  • Plesiopelma insulare (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
  • Plesiopelma longisternale (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942) – Argentina, Uruguay
  • Plesiopelma minense (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
  • Plesiopelma myodes Pocock, 1901 (type) – Uruguay
  • Plesiopelma paganoi Ferretti & Barneche, 2013 – Argentina
  • Plesiopelma physopus (Mello-Leitão, 1926) – Brazil
  • Plesiopelma rectimanum (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
  • Plesiopelma semiaurantiacum (Simon, 1897)Paraguay, Uruguay

Formerly included:

  • P. flavohirtum (Simon, 1889) (Transferred to Catanduba)

See also

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Plesiopelma Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  2. Pérez-Miles, F.; et al. (1996). "Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae)". Mygalomorph. 1: 55.
  3. Pocock, R. I. (1901). "Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (7): 540–555. doi:10.1080/03745480109443359.


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