Chaetopelma
Appearance
Chaetopelma | |
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Chaetopelma olivaceum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: | Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871[1] |
Type species | |
C. olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841)
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Species | |
7, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Chaetopelma is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871.[3]
Species
As of December 2019[update] it contains seven species, found in Africa, Balkans, on Cyprus, and in Syria:[1]
- Chaetopelma altugkadirorum Gallon, Gabriel & Tansley, 2012 – Turkey, Syria
- Chaetopelma concolor (Simon, 1873) – Turkey, Syria, Egypt
- Chaetopelma karlamani Vollmer, 1997 – Cyprus
- Chaetopelma lymberakisi Chatzaki & Komnenov, 2019 – Greece (Crete)
- Chaetopelma olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841) (type) – Cyprus, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, Middle East
- Chaetopelma turkesi Topçu & Demircan, 2014 – Turkey
- Chaetopelma webborum Smith, 1990 – Cameroon
In synonymy:
- C. aegyptiacum Ausserer, 1871 = Chaetopelma olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841)
- C. anatolicum Schmidt & Smith, 1995 = Chaetopelma olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841)
- C. gracile (Ausserer, 1871) = Chaetopelma olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841)
- C. jerusalemensis (Smith, 1990) = Chaetopelma olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841)
- C. shabati Hassan, 1950 = Chaetopelma olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841)
- C. syriacum (Ausserer, 1871) = Chaetopelma olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841)
- C. tetramerum (Simon, 1873) = Chaetopelma olivaceum (C. L. Koch, 1841)
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ Guadanucci, J. P. L.; Gallon, R. C. (2008). "A revision of the spider genera Chaetopelma Ausserer 1871 and Nesiergus Simon 1903 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae)". Zootaxa. 1753: 35.
- ^ Ausserer, A. (1871). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 21: 117–224.