Pamphobeteus

Pamphobeteus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[2] It includes some of the largest spiders in the world.

Pamphobeteus
Pamphobeteus nigricolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Pamphobeteus
Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
P. nigricolor
(Ausserer, 1875)
Species

13, see text

This genus was split from Lasiodora, distinguished by the lack of scopulae on the inferior side of the first leg femur and the differences in the organ for stridulation.[3]

Species

As of May 2020 it contains thirteen species, endemic to northwestern South America and Panama:[1]

  • Pamphobeteus antinous Pocock, 1903 – Peru, Bolivia
  • Pamphobeteus augusti (Simon, 1889) – Ecuador
  • Pamphobeteus crassifemur Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 – Brazil
  • Pamphobeteus ferox (Ausserer, 1875) – Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus fortis (Ausserer, 1875) – Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus grandis Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 – Brazil
  • Pamphobeteus insignis Pocock, 1903 – Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus nigricolor (Ausserer, 1875) (type) – Colombia, Brazil
  • Pamphobeteus ornatus Pocock, 1903 – Panama, Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus petersi Schmidt, 2002 – Ecuador, Peru
  • Pamphobeteus ultramarinus Schmidt, 1995 – Ecuador
  • Pamphobeteus verdolaga Cifuentes, Perafán & Estrada-Gomez, 2016 – Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus vespertinus (Simon, 1889) – Ecuador

Formerly included:

  • P. benedeni (Bertkau, 1880) (Transferred to Lasiodora)
  • P. cephalopheus Piza, 1944 (Transferred to Vitalius)
  • P. communis Piza, 1939 (Transferred to Vitalius)
  • P. litoralis Piza, 1976 (Transferred to Vitalius)
  • P. masculus Piza, 1939 (Transferred to Vitalius)
  • P. mus Piza, 1944 (Transferred to Vitalius)
  • P. piracicabensis Piza, 1933 (Transferred to Vitalius)
  • P. striatus Schmidt & Antonelli, 1996 (Transferred to Lasiodorides)
  • P. urbanicolus Soares, 1941 (Transferred to Vitalius)
  • P. ypiranguensis Soares, 1941 (Transferred to Vitalius)

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  2. Pocock, R. I. (1901). "Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (7): 540–555.
  3. Bertani, Rogério; Fukushima, Caroline Sayuri & da Silva Júnior, Pedro Ismael (2008). "Two new species of Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) from Brazil, with a new type of stridulatory organ" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1826: 45–58. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
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