Biology:Hapalopus

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Hapalopus
Hapalopus triseriatus young.jpg
Hapalopus triseriatus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Hapalopus
Ausserer, 1875[1]
Type species
H. formosus
Ausserer, 1875
Species

10, see text

Hapalopus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[2]

Diagnosis

They own a ring like keel on the palpal bulb, the tibial apophysis with convergent branches and a spermatheca having a membrane like base. They also lack stridulatory hairs and they own numerous labial cuspules.[3]

Species

(As of July 2022) it contains 10 species, found in South America and Panama:[1]

  • Hapalopus aymara Perdomo, Panzera & Pérez-Miles, 2009 - Bolivia, Brazil
  • Hapalopus butantan (Pérez-Miles, 1998) - Brazil
  • Hapalopus coloratus (Valerio, 1982) - Panama
  • Hapalopus formosus Ausserer, 1875 (type) - Colombia
  • Hapalopus gasci (Maréchal, 1996) - French Guiana
  • Hapalopus lesleyae Gabriel, 2011 - Guyana
  • Hapalopus nigriventris (Mello-Leitão, 1939) - Venezuela
  • Hapalopus serrapelada Fonseca-Ferreira, Zampaulo & Guadanucci, 2017 - Brazil
  • Hapalopus triseriatus Caporiacco, 1955 - Venezuela
  • Hapalopus variegatus (Caporiacco, 1955) - Venezuela

In synonymy

  • H. magdalena (Karsch, 1879) = Hapalopus formosus Ausserer, 1875

Nomen dubium

  • Hapalopus limensis Vellard, 1954 – (Though the description by Vellard wasn't published)

Transferred to other genera

  • Hapalopus aldana (West, 2000)Magnacarina aldana
  • Hapalopus flavohirtus Simon, 1889Catanduba flavohirta
  • Hapalopus guianensis Caporiacco, 1954Neostenotarsus guianensis
  • Hapalopus incei F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898Neoholothele incei
  • Hapalopus nondescriptus Mello-Leitão, 1926Vitalius nondescriptus
  • Hapalopus pentaloris (Simon, 1888)Davus pentaloris
  • Hapalopus pictus Pocock, 1903Anqasha picta
  • Hapalopus rectimanus Mello-Leitão, 1923Plesiopelma rectimanum
  • Hapalopus semiaurantiacus (Simon, 1897)Plesiopelma semiaurantiacum
  • Hapalopus tripepii (Dresco, 1984)Nhandu tripepii
  • Hapalopus versicolor (Simon, 1897)Cyriocosmus versicolor

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). Gen. Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3359. Retrieved 2020-04-17. 
  2. 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. 
  3. Perdomo, Cintya; Panzera, Alejandra; Pérez-Miles, Fernando (2009). "Hapalopus aymara a new species of tarantula from Bolivia (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae)" (in en). Iheringia. Série Zoologia 99: 53–55. doi:10.1590/S0073-47212009000100007. ISSN 0073-4721. http://www.scielo.br/j/isz/a/7JY8VstW4jbqnW8H4Szp4BK/?lang=en. 

Wikidata ☰ Q533468 entry