Trichopelma

Trichopelma is a genus of South American and Caribbean tarantulas first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.[2]

Trichopelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Subfamily: Ischnocolinae
Genus: Trichopelma
Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
T. nitidum
Simon, 1888
Species

17, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Stothis Simon, 1889
  • Hapalopinus Simon, 1903
  • Merothele Petrunkevitch, 1925
  • Obaerarius Petrunkevitch, 1926
  • Leptofischelia Strand, 1929

Taxonomy

This genus was erected by Eugène Simon in 1888 with Trichopelma illetabile and the type species Trichopelma nitidum.[2] A major review of mygalomorph spiders by Robert J. Raven in 1985 led to the genus being greatly enlarged, merging it with other genera Hapalopinus, Leptofischelia, Merothele, Obaerarius and Stothis. Raven placed this expanded genus in the family Barychelidae.[3] In 1994, he proposed moving Trichopelma to the related family Theraphosidae, but without any new evidence, the move was not generally accepted. In 2014 José P. L. Guadanucci carried out a morphological phylogenetic analysis of some mygalomorph genera, including Trichopelma. The study supported Raven's hypothesis, and the genus was moved to Theraphosidae as a member of a re-limited subfamily Ischnocolinae sensu stricto.[4]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seventeen species:[1]

  • Trichopelma affine (Simon, 1892) – St. Vincent
  • Trichopelma astutum (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Trichopelma banksia Özdikmen & Demir, 2012 – Cuba
  • Trichopelma coenobita (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Trichopelma corozali (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Cuba, Puerto Rico
  • Trichopelma cubanum (Simon, 1903) – Cuba
  • Trichopelma eucubanum Özdikmen & Demir, 2012 – Cuba
  • Trichopelma flavicomum Simon, 1891 – Brazil
  • Trichopelma illetabile Simon, 1888 – Brazil
  • Trichopelma insulanum (Petrunkevitch, 1926) – St. Thomas
  • Trichopelma laselva Valerio, 1986 – Costa Rica
  • Trichopelma maculatum (Banks, 1906) – Bahama Is.
  • Trichopelma maddeni Esposito & Agnarsson, 2014 – Dominican Rep.
  • Trichopelma nitidum Simon, 1888 (type) – Hispaniola
  • Trichopelma scopulatum (Fischel, 1927) – Venezuela
  • Trichopelma spinosum (Franganillo, 1926) – Cuba
  • Trichopelma zebra (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Trichopelma Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  2. Simon, E. (1888). "Etudes arachnologiques". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 203–216.
  3. Raven, R.J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 1–180. hdl:2246/955.
  4. Guadanucci, J.P.L. (2014). "Theraphosidae phylogeny: relationships of the 'Ischnocolinae' genera (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)". Zoologica Scripta. 43 (5): 508–518. doi:10.1111/zsc.12065.
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