Plesiopelma
Appearance
Plesiopelma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: | Plesiopelma Pocock, 1901[1] |
Type species | |
P. myodes Pocock, 1901
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Species | |
11, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Plesiopelma is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[3]
Species
As of May 2020[update] it contains eleven species, found in Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina:[1]
- Plesiopelma aspidosperma Ferretti & Barneche, 2013 – Argentina
- Plesiopelma gertschi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
- Plesiopelma imperatrix Piza, 1976 – Brazil
- Plesiopelma insulare (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
- Plesiopelma longisternale (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942) – Argentina, Uruguay
- Plesiopelma minense (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
- Plesiopelma myodes Pocock, 1901 (type) – Uruguay
- Plesiopelma paganoi Ferretti & Barneche, 2013 – Argentina
- Plesiopelma physopus (Mello-Leitão, 1926) – Brazil
- Plesiopelma rectimanum (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
- Plesiopelma semiaurantiacum (Simon, 1897) – Paraguay, Uruguay
Formerly included:
- P. flavohirtum (Simon, 1889) (Transferred to Catanduba)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Plesiopelma Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ^ Pérez-Miles, F.; et al. (1996). "Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae)". Mygalomorph. 1: 55.
- ^ Pocock, R. I. (1901). "Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (7): 540–555. doi:10.1080/03745480109443359.