Trichopelma
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Subfamily: | Ischnocolinae |
| Genus: | Trichopelma Simon, 1888[1] |
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Trichopelma is a genus of spiders in the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas).
Taxonomy
The genus Trichopelma was erected by Eugène Simon in 1888, with the type species Trichopelma nitidum; he also described Trichopelma illetabile.[1] A major review of mygalomorph spiders by Robert J. Raven in 1985 led to the genus being greatly enlarged, with Hapalopinus, Leptofischelia, Merothele, Obaerarius and Stothis all included in Trichopelma. Raven placed the expanded genus in the family Barychelidae.[2] In 1994, Raven proposed moving Trichopelma to the related family Theraphosidae, but without any new evidence, so the move was not generally accepted. José P. L. Guadanucci in 2014 carried out a morphological phylogenetic analysis of some mygalomorph genera, including Trichopelma, and concluded that the genus did indeed belong in Theraphosidae, as a member of a re-limited subfamily Ischnocolinae sensu stricto.[3]
Species
As of May 2016[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Trichopelma affine (Simon, 1891) – St. Vincent
- Trichopelma astutum (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
- Trichopelma banksia Özdikmen & Demir, 2012 – Cuba
- Trichopelma coenobita (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
- Trichopelma corozali (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Cuba, Puerto Rico
- Trichopelma cubanum (Simon, 1903) – Cuba
- Trichopelma eucubanum Özdikmen & Demir, 2012 – Cuba
- Trichopelma flavicomum Simon, 1891 – Brazil
- Trichopelma illetabile Simon, 1888 – Brazil
- Trichopelma insulanum (Petrunkevitch, 1926) – St. Thomas
- Trichopelma laselva Valerio, 1986 – Costa Rica
- Trichopelma maculatum (Banks, 1906) – Bahama Is.
- Trichopelma maddeni Esposito & Agnarsson, 2014 – Dominican Republic
- Trichopelma nitidum Simon, 1888 (type species) – Hispaniola
- Trichopelma scopulatum (Fischel, 1927) – Venezuela
- Trichopelma spinosum (Franganillo, 1926) – Cuba
- Trichopelma zebra (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama
References
- ^ a b c d "Gen. Trichopelma Simon, 1888", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-05-01
- ^ Raven, R.J. (1985), "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 182: 1–180, retrieved 2016-01-18
- ^ Guadanucci, J.P.L. (2014), "Theraphosidae phylogeny: relationships of the 'Ischnocolinae' genera (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)", Zoologica Scripta, 43 (5): 508–518, doi:10.1111/zsc.12065
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