Biology:Eupalaestrus

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Eupalaestrus
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Eupalaestrus campestratus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Eupalaestrus
Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
E. campestratus
(Simon, 1891)
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Weyenberghiana Mello-Leitão, 1941[2]

Eupalaestrus is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[3]

Species

(As of October 2021) it contains six species, found in Uruguay, Argentina , Paraguay, and Brazil :[1]

  • Eupalaestrus campestratus (Simon, 1891) (type) – Brazil , Paraguay, Argentina
  • Eupalaestrus crassimetatarsis Borges, Paladini & Bertani, 2021 – Brazil, Argentina
  • Eupalaestrus larae Ferretti & Barneche, 2012 – Argentina
  • Eupalaestrus roccoi Borges, Paladini & Bertani, 2021 – Brazil
  • Eupalaestrus spinosissimus Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brazil
  • Eupalaestrus weijenberghi (Thorell, 1894) – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

In synonymy:

  • E. guyanus (Simon, 1892) = Eupalaestrus campestratus (Simon, 1891)
  • E. holophaeus (Mello-Leitão, 1923, removed from S of Vitalius cesteri (Mello-Leitão, 1923), contra Bücherl, 1947a: 258, sub Pamphobeteus) = Eupalaestrus spinosissimus Mello-Leitão, 1923
  • E. pugilator Pocock, 1901 = Eupalaestrus campestratus (Simon, 1891)
  • E. riparius (Schmidt & Bolle, 2008) = Eupalaestrus weijenberghi (Thorell, 1894)
  • E. saltator (Pocock, 1903) = Eupalaestrus weijenberghi (Thorell, 1894)
  • E. tarsicrassus Bücherl, 1947 = Eupalaestrus spinosissimus Mello-Leitão, 1923
  • E. tennuitarsus Bücherl, 1947 = Eupalaestrus campestratus (Simon, 1891)

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). Gen. Eupalaestrus Pocock, 1901. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3355. Retrieved 25 October 2021. 
  2. Gerschman de P., B. S.; Schiapelli, R. D. (1979). "Estudio de los ejemplares tipos de Lasiodora weijenberghi Thorell, 1894 y Eurypelma minax Thorell, 1894 (Araneae, Theraphosidae)". Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 37: 86. 
  3. 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. https://zenodo.org/record/1430516. 

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