Euathlus
| Euathlus | |
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| Unidentified species of Euathlus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Euathlus Ausserer, 1875[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. truculentus L. Koch, 1875
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| Species | |
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10, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Euathlus is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[3] It is a senior synonym of Paraphysa,[2] and was formerly considered a senior synonym of Brachypelma,[4] but this was later rejected.[5]
Species
As of March 2020[update] it contains ten species, found in Argentina and Chile:[1]
- Euathlus affinis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
- Euathlus antai Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
- Euathlus atacama Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
- Euathlus condorito Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
- Euathlus diamante Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
- Euathlus manicata (Simon, 1892) – Chile
- Euathlus parvulus (Pocock, 1903) – Chile
- Euathlus sagei Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
- Euathlus tenebrarum Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
- Euathlus truculentus L. Koch, 1875 (type) – Chile, Argentina
In synonymy:
- E. phryxotrichoides (Strand, 1907) = Euathlus truculentus L. Koch, 1875
See also
References
- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Euathlus Ausserer, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ a b Perafán, C.; Pérez-Miles, F. (2014). "The Andean tarantulas Euathlus Ausserer, 1875, Paraphysa Simon, 1892 and Phrixotrichus Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): phylogenetic analysis, genera redefinition and new species descriptions". Journal of Natural History. 48 (39–40): 2397. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.902142. S2CID 84369662.
- ^ Ausserer, A. (1875). "Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 25: 125–206.
- ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 150.
- ^ Schmidt, G. (1991). "Revision der Gattung Megaphobema (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)". Arachnologischer Anzeiger. 13: 12.
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