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 | |
|---|---|
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 | |
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5, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
As of March 2020 it contains five species, found in the West Indies and northern South America:[1]
- Holothele culebrae (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico
- Holothele denticulata (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
- Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
- Holothele shoemakeri (Petrunkevitch, 1926) – US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas)
- Holothele sulfurensis Maréchal, 2005 – Guadeloupe
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
- "Gen. Holothele Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 152.
- 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.
- Karsch, F. (1879). "Arachnologische Beiträge". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 52: 534–562.
- Raven, R. J. (1980). "The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata)". Journal of Arachnology. 8: 254.
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