Pterinopelma

Pterinopelma is a genus of Brazilian tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[2] As of May 2020 it contains three species, found in Brazil: P. felipeleitei, P. sazimai, and P. vitiosum.[1] It was removed from the synonymy of Eupalaestrus in 2011.[3]

Pterinopelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Pterinopelma
Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
P. vitiosum
(Keyserling, 1891)
Species
  • P. felipeleitei Bertani & Leal, 2016 – Brazil
  • P. sazimai Bertani, Nagahama & Fukushima, 2011 – Brazil
  • P. vitiosum (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Pterinopelma Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  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, R.; Nagahama, R. H.; Fukushima, C. S. (2011). "Revalidation of Pterinopelma Pocock 1901 with description of a new species and the female of Pterinopelma vitiosum (Keyserling 1891) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)". Zootaxa. 2814: 3.


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