Biology:Holothele

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Holothele
Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875).jpg
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Holothele
Karsch, 1879[1]
Type species
H. longipes
(L. Koch, 1875)
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Dryptopelmides Strand, 1907[2]
  • Stichoplastus Simon, 1889[3]

Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.[4] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.[5]

Diagnosis

They can be distinguished by the lack of urticating hairs, tarsus 4 being pseudo segmented. The tarsal claws own a row of teeth, and a labium with around 90 cuspules.[6]

Species

(As of July 2022) it contains six species, found in the West Indies and in the north of South America:[1]

  • Holothele culebrae (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico
  • Holothele denticulata (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
  • Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
  • Holothele maddeni (Esposito & Agnarsson, 2014) - Dominican Republic
  • Holothele shoemakeri (Petrunkevitch, 1926) – US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas)
  • Holothele sulfurensis Maréchal, 2005 – Guadeloupe

In synonymy

  • H. ludwigi (Strand, 1907) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. ravida (Simon, 1889) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. recta Karsch, 1879 = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. rondoni (Lucas & Bücherl, 1972) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. sanguiniceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)

Transferred to other genera

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). Gen. Holothele Karsch, 1879. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3371. Retrieved 2020-04-17. 
  2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 152. 
  3. Rudloff, J.-P. (1997). "Revision der Gattung Holothele Karsch, 1879 nebst Aufstellung einer neuen Gattung Stichoplastoris gen. nov. (Araneae, Theraphosidae) und Wiedereinsetzung einiger weiterer Gattungen der Mygalomorphae". Arachnologisches Magazin 5 (2): 10. 
  4. Karsch, F. (1879). "Arachnologische Beiträge". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 534–562. 
  5. Raven, R. J. (1980). "The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata)". Journal of Arachnology 8: 254. 
  6. Guadanucci, J. P. L.; Perafán L., Carlos A.; Valencia-Cuéllar, D. (2017). "The genus Holothele Karsch, 1879: the identity of the type species (Mygalomorphae, theraphosidae)" (in en). Zoosystema 39 (2): 263–271. doi:10.5252/z2017n2a5. ISSN 1280-9551. https://www.colibri.udelar.edu.uy/jspui/handle/20.500.12008/22552. 

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