Biology:Hapalopus
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Hapalopus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[1]
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.[2] Specimens are further differentiated from the closely-related Notahapalopus genus by a single round spermathecal receptacle, which is Y-shaped in Notahapalopus.[3]
Species
As of November 2025[update] it contains 8 species, found in South America and Panama:[4]
- Hapalopus coloratus Valerio, 1982 - Panama
- Hapalopus formosus Ausserer, 1875 (type) - Colombia
- Hapalopus guerreroi Sherwood, Gabriel, Peñaherrera-R., Osorio, Benavides, Hörweg, Brescovit & Lucas, 2024 - Colombia
- Hapalopus nigriventris Mello-Leitão, 1939 - Venezuela
- Hapalopus planetearth Dupérré & Tapia, 2025 - Ecuador
- Hapalopus platnicki Sherwood, Gabriel, Peñaherrera-R., Osorio, Benavides, Hörweg, Brescovit & Lucas, 2024 - Colombia
- Hapalopus triseriatus Caporiacco, 1955 - Venezuela
- Hapalopus vangoghi Sherwood, Gabriel, Peñaherrera-R., Osorio, Benavides, Hörweg, Brescovit & Lucas, 2024 - Colombia
In synonymy
- H. magdalena (Karsch, 1879) = Hapalopus formosus Ausserer, 1875
- H. variegatus (Caporiacco, 1955) = Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens Strand, 1907
- Hapalopus limensis Vellard, 1954 – (Though the description by Vellard wasn't published)
Transferred to other genera
- Hapalopus aldana (West, 2000) → Magnacarina aldana
- Hapalopus aymara (Perdomo, Panzera & Pérez-Miles, 2009) → Notahapalopus aymara
- Hapalopus butantan (Pérez-Miles, 1998) → Jambu butantan
- Hapalopus flavohirtus (Simon, 1889) → Catanduba flavohirta
- Hapalopus gasci (Maréchal, 1996) → Notahapalopus gasci
- Hapalopus guianensis (Caporiacco, 1954) → Neostenotarsus guianensis
- Hapalopus incei (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) → Neoholothele incei
- Hapalopus lesleyae (Gabriel, 2011) → Jambu lesleyae
- Hapalopus nondescriptus Mello-Leitão, 1926 → Vitalius nondescriptus
- Hapalopus pentaloris (Simon, 1888) → Davus pentaloris
- Hapalopus pictus Pocock, 1903 → Anqasha picta
- Hapalopus rectimanus Mello-Leitão, 1923 → Plesiopelma rectimanum
- Hapalopus semiaurantiacus (Simon, 1897) → Plesiopelma semiaurantiacum
- Hapalopus serrapelada Fonseca-Ferreira, Zampaulo & Guadanucci, 2017 → Notahapalopus serrapelada
- Hapalopus tripepii (Dresco, 1984) → Nhandu tripepii
- Hapalopus versicolor (Simon, 1897) → Cyriocosmus versicolor
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Sherwood, Danniela; Gabriel, Ray; Osorio, Luis M.; Benavides, Léiner; Peñaherrera-R., Pedro; Hörweg, Christoph; Brescovit, Antonio D.; Lucas, Sylvia M. (2024). "Spot the difference: on the genus Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 in Colombia and a new related genus from Brazil and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae)" (in en). ZooNova 32: 1–44. doi:10.5281/zenodo.11458605.
- ↑ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2025). Gen. Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3359. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
Wikidata ☰ Q533468 entry
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