Biology:Neoholothele

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Short description: Genus of spiders


Neoholothele
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Neoholothele incei
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Neoholothele
Guadanucci & Weinmann, 2015
Type species
Neoholothele incei
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)
Species
  • Neoholothele fasciaaurinigra Guadanucci & Weinmann, 2015 - Colombia
  • Neoholothele incei (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) - Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela

Neoholothele is a genus of tarantula, first described in 2015 by Guadanucci & Weinmann. (As of August 2022), it contains 2 species Neoholothele fasciaaurinigra and Neoholothele incei, the latter being the type species.[1] They are named after the prefix "neo" from the Greek word for new, and the genus Holothele.[2]

Diagnosis

They can be distinguished by the coloration of the carapace, which is dark with a golden cephalic region. Females with a striped pattern on the abdomen, with a long and slender spermathecae receptors. Males with a retrolateral branch in the male tibial spurs with an apical end.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q27464928 entry