Euathlus

Euathlus is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[3] It is a senior synonym of Paraphysa,[2] and was formerly considered a senior synonym of Brachypelma,[4] but this was later rejected.[5]

Euathlus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Euathlus
Ausserer, 1875[1]
Type species
E. truculentus
L. Koch, 1875
Species

10, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of March 2020 it contains ten species, found in Argentina and Chile:[1]

  • Euathlus affinis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
  • Euathlus antai Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
  • Euathlus atacama Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
  • Euathlus condorito Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
  • Euathlus diamante Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
  • Euathlus manicata (Simon, 1892) – Chile
  • Euathlus parvulus (Pocock, 1903) – Chile
  • Euathlus sagei Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
  • Euathlus tenebrarum Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
  • Euathlus truculentus L. Koch, 1875 (type) – Chile, Argentina

In synonymy:

  • E. phryxotrichoides (Strand, 1907) = Euathlus truculentus L. Koch, 1875

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Euathlus Ausserer, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  2. Perafán, C.; Pérez-Miles, F. (2014). "The Andean tarantulas Euathlus Ausserer, 1875, Paraphysa Simon, 1892 and Phrixotrichus Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): phylogenetic analysis, genera redefinition and new species descriptions". Journal of Natural History. 48 (39–40): 2397. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.902142.
  3. Ausserer, A. (1875). "Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 25: 125–206.
  4. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 150.
  5. Schmidt, G. (1991). "Revision der Gattung Megaphobema (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)". Arachnologischer Anzeiger. 13: 12.


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